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Don't start me on VTL. I spent two weeks trying to delete a VTL which was sitting unused at $5000 a month.

On lambda, the issue I mentioned was actually because one of their services was built on top of that and maintained state between lambda runs whereas the open source product they ripped off did not. That meant their entire product was stateful when it should have been stateless. It compromised everything.

I couldn't possibly use Google after a GApps fiasco I had a couple of years back. No way.

Thanks for the rest of the info. I shall carefully decipher it.

For the next platform migration we do it might be back to a dedicated DC which is where we came from. We have stable constrained, predictable load. The TCO was cheaper, the staff were fewer, the performance was better and the licensing of some commercial products we leverage was much easier to handle and cheaper.