[fizx]

So true.

The advice of "commoditize your complements" is working out great for amazon. Ironically, AWS is almost a commodity itself, and the OSS community could flip the table, but we haven't figured out how to do it.

[giovannibonetti]

AWS is a commodity, albeit an expensive one. After all, it has competitors like GCP, which some people like me actually prefer.

[fire_lake]

I would say the lock-in is considerable. To avoid the lock-in (maybe you go full Kubernetes on EC2) then it’s ton more work.

[breckognize]

Similar to Amazon's Retail fulfillment infrastructure, the AWS supply chain infrastructure is definitely not a commodity.