Yeah. The company I work for was acquired by a big player in the industry, and one of the first things they wanted to do was move us off AWS, because the COO se

Yeah. The company I work for was acquired by a big player in the industry, and one of the first things they wanted to do was move us off AWS, because the COO sees Amazon as a competitor and thinks that they'll go snooping in our databases to get a competitive advantage [1]. We managed to stave it off by coming up with a vague plan for how we'd move critical infrastructure to hardware, then shelving it indefinitely. AWS was (and is) critical to our velocity - unlike every other team in the company, we don't wait 6 weeks to start working on something while IT eventually gets around to writing a hardware purchase order and racking the gear. We don't compete for "the staging environment" because we can have as many environments as we want. [1] This is a ludicrous idea. My two main rebuttals are: - AWS takes in more revenue than our company, and they would destroy that business if it ever got out that their engineers were snooping in customer data - Netflix is a much more direct competitor than we are (they compete with Amazon Video) and also a much heavier user of (and cheerleader for, even) AWS