[marcinzm]

Same goes for metal, your data center can suddenly increase your prices massively or go bankrupt.

[toomuchtodo]

For sure! That's why I said, "Don't marry yourself to a provider, stay portable". Compute is a commodity, treat it as such.

[marcinzm]

Except that costs time and money, and for many people isn't worth it. Good business is not about eliminating risk but understanding and managing it.

For a startup, the risk of AWS doing something is tiny compared to all other risks so not worth spending effort to mitigate.

For a moderately sized company, true, being on multiple clouds may have an advantage.

For a large company, you get long term contracts with AWS that mitigate the risk.