[withinboredom]

My understanding from reading much of OPs responses is that “the cloud” may be vendor locked to AWS. There are serious issues there to hosting your code on servers most likely owned by a competitor. E-Commerce, video streaming, games, AI, video production, electronics, retail, pharmaceuticals, logistics, publishing, etc. Like they literally picked the worst vendor to build this on.

[sasham]

Why the worst? Microsoft is a more serious competitor to game studios with Xbox Game Studios and now Activision Blizzard. (And yet they do use Azure).

You definitely have a point reg vendor lock, we've planned for this and Diversion will be able to run in any cloud and on-prem in the future (we are running it in containers now).

[withinboredom]

Worst due to spread. Almost any industry Amazon has a hand in means you might run into issues selling in that industry.