The game seems to be to keep IaaS pricing high and tell people that use it that they're doing it wrong, they need to use our cloud-native offerings which will i

The game seems to be to keep IaaS pricing high and tell people that use it that they're doing it wrong, they need to use our cloud-native offerings which will indeed lower their spend but increase lock-in. I suppose the counter to that is Kubernetes and other cloud-native-like abstractions on top of commodity IaaS so at least you can somewhat easily move between cloud providers and seek better pricing. From what I can tell it's a cat and mouse game of who can lock-in and who can abstract away, and I assume it's been going on for longer than I've been at this.