[SQueeeeeL]

No, any reasonable user would start completely removing themselves from Google (really any corporate SaaS environment that they don't completely own the source code of). This seems like killing the goose that laid the golden egg, I'm sure on a balance sheet these products are loosing money, but that basically tells any client who wants to build a service that you aren't trustworthy in the long term.

[techntoke]

That's what is funny about all these cloud services, especially Amazon. You no longer get to think about the common sense way of doing things, but instead you have to use the AWS way. You're better off investing your time into building your own agnostic solution.

[Cpoll]

Why especially Amazon, I haven't seen them shutter any major service?

I've seen lots of companies throw away their V1 and start over (hopefully with the knowledge learned), so my opinion is that it's okay to vendor lock-in and leverage stuff like AWS Load Balancers, ECS, etc. You're going to end up having to rewrite it when you finally scope out your real challenges, so it doesn't matter if V1 was agnostic or vendor-based.

> You're better off investing your time into building your own agnostic solution.

This sounds suspiciously like 'not invented here.'

[jcadam]

I really hate the way AWS forces you to choose between portability and cost-efficiency.

[toomuchtodo]

But then it’s not really cost efficient, eh? Just a mirage until the pain comes. Until then, “let them consume highly abstracted services”.

There’s a reason some savvy firms continue to own their own infra. No one is forcing you to use AWS.