[methodin]

I beg to differ on your second point - at my company we've fully embraced AWS and putting vendor lock-in issues aside, the end result is focusing more on the application and less on the minutiae of operational issues which is a big win. This makes things much more interesting since you can get there faster and consequently take on more impactful projects in the same timeframe. This in general is a boon for developers in my experience.

[ignoramous]

Agreed. The flip side isn't vendor lock-in though, it is building complex systems under the guise of scale.