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It's often difficult to migrate providers when the application is complex or the owners may see the value in the provider. They're falling right into the hands of most cloud providers evil plans, they make it cheap to get started but as time moves on, it becomes more difficult to migrate away.

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We moved the stack to Amazon in about 60 hrs last year (gems were already on S3). Given that time involved writing a lot of chef recipes, I'd say if pushed we could move out again in an even shorter period of time.

Everything needed to build the rubygems.org stack can be found at https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems-aws