> A mistake I see commonly whenever someone says to "just move off of the cloud" is that they see the cloud as just a VM provider. If it was, then yeah, moving

> A mistake I see commonly whenever someone says to "just move off of the cloud" is that they see the cloud as just a VM provider. If it was, then yeah, moving to another provider wouldn't be such a big deal. I think it can still be a big deal depending on what's the overall system architecture, where are all data stores, how many services you run, and what constraints you're dealing with. For example, when you are between two cloud providers, more often than not you will have to replace internal calls with external calls, at least within the migration stage. That as important impacts on reliability and performance. In some scenarios, this performance impact is not acceptable and might require architecting services.