[tda]

Probably there is even good competition between the cloud providers, because hosting the data means that you can sell a lot of compute time to all the users of the data. NASA choosing for AWS means that any IO intensive analysis on that data will run faster/better/cheaper on AWS.

[eeZah7Ux]

No, there isn't, and going for the quasi-monopolist only encourages lock-in.

[tspike]

Microsoft especially has been aggressive in courting large companies away from AWS for cloud needs.