This post speaks to a larger issue that cloud vendors are driven to extract as much money from you, the customer, as possible. They are not evil or malicious, t

This post speaks to a larger issue that cloud vendors are driven to extract as much money from you, the customer, as possible. They are not evil or malicious, they are commercial enterprises and cloud is built on consumption economics. There is no incentive to make it easy for you to move to another cloud. Replace 'observability space' with SEIM/SOAR, first party databases (Spanner/CosmosDB), many PaaS offerings, and the themes still apply. Pushing proprietary solutions to your is an effective means of making customers stick. I am not passing judgement here, there is some value to turnkey solutions but it depends on your business. Datadog in particular is a bit insidious as they have a multi-cloud proprietary service that can follow your workloads across clouds (even so far as to be essentially first party on Azure via Azure Native ISV Services).