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by theshrike79 284 days ago
It's the Excel thing. Excel has a ton of features.

Everyone only uses 10% of them and complains that it'd be a lot simpler to use if the 90% went away.

But everyone uses a different 10% of it =)

The same is true with cloud offerings. There's no way to force full feature parity with AWS without a trillion euro investment.

But can they find the 10% that is enough for the relevant users? The ones that can't for legal and privacy reasons have their data exist physically in the US or even within US companies.
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epolanski 284 days ago
This excel-aws comparison is asinine.

A better one would be Microsoft 365 and AWS.

Sure migrating out of Excel might be difficult, but migrating out of PowerPoint, Teams or SharePoint? Not necessarily.

In fact, migrating out of EC2 or S3 is almost trivial as most competitors even offer identical APIs.

Also, any company that is so vendor locked is asking for trouble and huge bills.

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