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You think AWS doesn't have enough lock-in now? And yet maximum profits come from keeping customers, not driving them away. There's no such thing as a managed s

You think AWS doesn't have enough lock-in now? And yet maximum profits come from keeping customers, not driving them away. There's no such thing as a managed service so proprietary that it can't be essentially cloned by another provider. I remember people making the same claims about S3 long ago, and yet there are multiple providers of S3-compatible file storage services now. Microsoft's Azure provides migration tools for people wanting to leave Amazon's AWS, and they are not alone. Amazon tends to be (in my opinion) a few years ahead of everybody else, and different competitors focus on different areas of competition, but migrating away from AWS isn't really as hard as the "proprietary" label might make it seem.

throwaway894345 4y ago
Our organization moved from AWS to GCP. We were very integrated in AWS, but the migration wasn’t so bad, and even with the benefit of hindsight I would never have thought that we should have strived to be cloud agnostic. Or rather, the best way to be “cloud agnostic” is to architect your applications sensibly such that changing from S3 to GCS is a relatively small, localized change in each application. Also, having a good test suite really helps to protect against regressions, and a culture of documentation will help to make sure you know what things to port over and what things are vestiges of some old requirements and so on. Ultimately, moving cloud providers wasn’t that bad in my experience.