[semerda]

Feels like AWS is less of a vendor lock than building it inhouse. Doing it all inhouse has a high upfront cost that must be realized over X years irrelevant of the outcome. On the other hand if one implemented a microservices architecture, moving off AWS month-to-month service to another provider is far easier. Did I miss something?

[manigandham]

How is microservices related here? They're built in-house too. It's still just services/apps/code that has to run somewhere.

You can run it on AWS or somewhere else but moving is always a problem regardless.

[late2part]

There are no month-to-month costs with Amazon that I'm aware of. There are hour by hour, and 12 month and 36 month commitments.