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by XorNot 1882 days ago
The best (silliest) business model I've seen is the new thing of vendors promising to make you cross-cloud...via locking you into the platform offered by the vendor (which is usually entirely hosted on one specific cloud provider anyway).

There's valid reasons to support multiple providers, but that is definitely not one of them.
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fortyrod 1882 days ago
Indeed. The thing that caused me to actually move stuff off AWS to GCP was that you could deploy generic Node Express apps as Firebase Cloud Functions (and then Cloud Run). I knew I could move those anywhere if I needed to.
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notamy 1882 days ago
Honestly, it's kind of brilliant. Convincing people that they need to pay you outrageous sums to not change the fact that they're locked-in at the same level is really clever.

Kinda scummy? Probably. But brilliant nonetheless.

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EdwardDiego 1882 days ago
K8s tends to work well as a basis for abstracting away the specific cloud provider to an extent.
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