[matwood]

> I would even argue it's only for those who are afraid of command line.

This make no sense. Using AWS beyond spinning up a VM requires extensive knowledge and comfort at the 'command line'. In fact, I think the vast knowledge required is one of the negatives of all the current cloud providers. Back when I could walk down the hall into the DC and sit down at whatever machine it was easier, and arguably required less knowledge.

> But in the long term the costs rise and you can't get away from it.

With AWS at least, our long term costs have only gone up as the business has grown. If we went back to the same size many years ago, costs have gone down.

[Bellamy]

So you could easily switch away from AWS if needed?

I've heard a few horror stories of vendor locking and I can easily understand that (but no own experience, luckily).