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There is essentially zero cost for a user to switch airlines. The cost to switch clouds is astronomical for any decent sized org.

• throwaway2037 2y ago
  I like the sentiment of your post. I mostly agree. If you use OpenShift, doesn't that help to reduce the cost of switching cloud providers?
  • coredog64 2y ago
    Not really. What happens when you run a cloud on top of your cloud is that you don’t get to use any of their differentiating features and that winds up costing you money. Plus you have to pay for your own control plane when that’s already baked into the cloud provider’s charge model.
    • throwaway2037 2y ago
      > Plus you have to pay for your own control plane when that’s already baked into the cloud provider’s charge model. When you say "control plane" does this mean Kubernetes?
  • fragmede 2y ago
    You're not switching cloud providers. Amazon's not going to suddenly decide to jack up rates for EC2 instances on you. So the extra complexity just isn't worth it. There is a hypothetical "but what if we honestly actually really really do", but that's such a waste of engineering time when there are so many other problems to be solved that it's implausible. The only time multi-cloud makes sense is when you have to meet customers where they're at, and have resources in whichever cloud your customers are using. Or if you're running arbitrage between the clouds and are reselling compute.
• jart 2y ago
  Those poor little AI clouds will never keep people reeled in unless they invent something like CUDA.