[nathants]

vendor lockin is fine. it’s like having a great employee, but not leveraging them fully because bus factor and cogs. you should be sad if a great employee leaves, or your vendor shuts down. choose both carefully, and trust them.

my only experience expanding out of aws is to cloudflare for egress. i’m sure it can be rough, but so can anything solved with dev time.

expanding out of aws with individual tightly scoped components should be easier than general cloud migration. just bandwidth egress. just cheaper cpus for background processing. just whatever.

keep the complicated stuff on main cloud where it belongs.