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How to move from one service that is out of your control to another service that is out of your control.
by amelius 1y ago
How to move from one service that is out of your control to another service that is out of your control.
- anonymousDan 1y agoI don't understand - what do they mean when they say you can run things on your own infrastructure then?
- amelius 1y agoThey say "serverless infrastructure", which is something else.
- dist-epoch 1y agoYour own infrastructure in the same sense as your own AWS EC2 machines.
- klabb3 1y ago> your own AWS EC2 machines Not disagreeing, but this is quite an expression.
- Incipient 1y agoHaving the ABILITY to move seamlessly and without significant cost is absolutely critical. It gives you flexibility if the provider isn't keeping pace with the market and it prevents the provider from jacking prices relative to its competitors. Vendor lockin is awful. Hypothetically, imagine how stuffed you'd be if your core virtualisation provider jacked prices 500%! You'd be really hurting. ...ohwait.
- kristianc 1y agoYou're not really locked in in any meaningful way currently, you just switch the API you're using. Rather like is being demonstrated here.