[dstainer]

In my opinion the story here is that AWS allowed them to quickly build and prove out a business idea. This in turn afforded them the luxury to make this kind of switch. Cloud did it's job.

[dilyevsky]

It's good take and one that's important to keep in mind when you're engineering your stack to be fully dependent on your chosen cloud vendor

[notnmeyer]

this is a very good take on the situation.