Former AWS ProServe employee - I did work in cloud and had some part in quite a few migrations. I did my bid at BigTech and I have no love loss for Amazon. Yo

Former AWS ProServe employee - I did work in cloud and had some part in quite a few migrations. I did my bid at BigTech and I have no love loss for Amazon. You can not use any service at scale and avoid “lock in”. “Infrastructure has weight”. I’ve seen it take over a year to migrate an organizations VMWare hosted VMs to AWS. No “just use Kubernetes” is not the answer. Every hosted Kubernetes provider has some type of custom metadata you need to add to your configuration. It can be leaky. No “just use Terraform” is not the answer. Providers are unique for each cloud platform and you still have to rewrite everything. Not to mention at scale, you have to deal with the PMO, compliance, training, if you are large enough you might have a physical connection from your Colo to the provider etc..