[babo]

As a startup, the last thing to worry is vendor lock-in. With an architecture like this, you got fast time to market, minimal operations, scalability, zero starting cost, fair pricing. Just my 2c.

[malux85]

actually it's not the last thing to worry about. I deliberately didn't vendor lock-in with my startup, and now I can deploy to Azure, AWS, and anyone who has a linux box. Being vendor independent has opened the door to a lot of sales that would not have been possible otherwise

[sshumaker]

Or you could have spent that dev time on product/market fit, growth, or making your customers happy instead.

The cost calculus doesn't usually switch until you've pretty far along on solving those things.

[k__]

if you sell services to consumers, you probably don't have to care too much.