[methodin]

Indeed. I don't even see this as a bad thing - it means you pick the best option given your shifting criteria which is what we should be doing. Blindly doing one or the other makes no sense. I don't particularly enjoy the blog posts that are hyperbolic (not necessarily this one) - both AWS and other things can both be simultaneously a good choice for any given company.

[noogle]

But moving off of the cloud is not always realistic. If the start-up leveraged cloud-specific services, they are now locked in. If they remained cloud-agnostic, they were under-utilizing the cloud.

How many companies actually shift their infra vendor?