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I didn't realize all the pieces of the cloud stack that CNCF was working on and how each piece gives you more flexibility to move between cloud providers. Kubernetes and rkt replace servers and orchestration of course but you also have Open Policy Agent and Spire to replace IAM, Envoy and Jaeger replace X-ray, VPC, Security Groups, Rook replaces S3, etc.

It's kind of interesting because Google and Microsoft have opened a new front against Amazon to counter their strategy of locking you in with services. If software from CNCF is good enough to be used in place of these services on each cloud provider then you can nullify AWS's advantage there and Google can lure you in with ML and Microsoft with their enterprise experience.

But I'm not sure these projects can make progress faster than AWS can release and update their fantastic array of services. Kubernetes being the obvious exception (when is EKS GA?!?!)