[tennis_80]

Pretty standard for most cloud services, especially as you get more "cloud-native." If you adopt DynamoDB as your DB of choice - you'll struggle to get off AWS should the need arise, without rewriting parts of your app.

But in practice - is this important? The hyperscaler clouds are similarly priced, and if you're able to leverage the proprietary tech in one to speed up development, or simplify operations, maybe it's worth being locked in.

[jonfw]

> But in practice - is this important? The hyperscaler clouds are similarly priced

Similar prices as advertised maybe, but big companies and governments do enough volume that they can negotiate discounts. If they're locked in they lose leverage though

[NovemberWhiskey]

They're only similarly priced in some kind of complex, eventually-consistent, weighted-for-feature-parity way.

[bennyhill]

The hyperscale clouds double in cost every 3 years compared to the prices dictated by Moore's law for hardware sold or rented in competitive markets.