[Alupis]

> build entire businesses on an infrastructure that they later had to abandon.

Frankly, if your business is built entirely around a single 3rd party provider, and you are totally incapable of pivoting cloud providers at short notice... well then you are "doing it wrong".

[justonepost]

That's the point that was made above. Don't build anything that relies on this architecture unless you can migrate.

[discardorama]

Like Netflix? They seem to be doing alright.

[Alupis]

> Like Netflix? They seem to be doing alright.

Could you elaborate a little?

Netflix doesn't rely on a single provider for hardware, data centers, nor bandwidth. Sure they use EC2 for some things, but also have a great deal of hardware in data centers throughout the country, as well as custom hardware in ISP data centers, etc. I'd be shocked if there didn't use some of the other cloud provider offering too.

Netflix has no single point of failure.

Building your business around a single cloud provider creates a single point of failure.