[xyzzyfoobar]

totally agree (make that N=2). Almost nothing can be trusted anymore to an engineering team that will not result in it being implemented AWS/Azure/etc. More than ever we have incredible processors, loads of memory and storage and bandwidth, that allow us to do insane stuff within the confines of a single machine, but no! we want to go serverless everthing.

For many, many applications than can be deployed on a single server, AWS introduces the potential of uncontrollable lifetime costs, more threat vectors, vastly increased vendor lockin, lower performance....

AWS and their ilk are like cults now. Okay! need to stop

[RGamma]

My org is moving to the cloud as well and has yet to experience the lock-in and price gouging drawbacks.

The pendulum is gonna swing back; it'll take a while.