I'd equate it to running RHEL Vs Ubuntu, but with the difficulty stepped up a notch or two. If you understand what is happening at a conceptual level you can ch

I'd equate it to running RHEL Vs Ubuntu, but with the difficulty stepped up a notch or two. If you understand what is happening at a conceptual level you can change between providers and be productive - but there are going to be pitfalls which might lead you to doing things sub-optimally. For day-to-day usage I think the differences are trivial enough, but at a higher level (account Vs project setup) the differences are more pronounced. As a predominantly AWS person looking at the others, GCP seems relatively lacking in polish but with some nice features I wish AWS would steal. Azure on the other hand looks like a shiny turd; all of the bits I expect from AWS seem to exist and are presented in a familiar way, but closer inspection reveals that I definitely don't want to get involved in using them.