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by softwaredoug 2952 days ago
+1 to vendor lock-in. Being an AWS shop can start feeling like being a Windows shop in the 90s... it can creep up on you. You mostly have an open source app and slowly start acruing bits of AWS only functionality. A bit of SQS here... S3 here... Lambda there.

Before you know it your giant app is stuck on proprietary infra and core business functionality involves paying a significant tax to keep things operational.

I’m a big fan of hosted open source for this reason. But those hosts too have incentives to sell you proprietary “value add” functionality.