[LaserToy]

Funny, right. I worked for at least 2 companies that at some point in time put a lot of money into Oracle. One of them is a leading gaming network, a lot of billions in revenue.

Teams struggled with migration off it. It was a multi year/multi millions project and there is no end to it. And newcomers were saying -> oh, that was a silly idea to use all this stuff (why didn't they used Dynamo :) ), hovewer, 15 years ago it was pretty ok + Oracle solution architects were all over the company.

I don't see how amazon's strategy is different. And I don't get how folks, who are saying Oracle lock was bad, but Amazon is ok, can justify such a thinking.

I will put my money on it, in 10 years those will be good examples of how not to do things. Like, for example, when AWS leadership changes. And internet will be: who would've seen it coming.

[zaarn]

Same reason that people think that Chrome lock-in is okay and IE lock-in was bad; the new product is shiny and has good features. At the moment.

Well, and you gotta justify that 1 million $ investment (R&D + Costs) into your AWS architecture somehow.