[rkj93]

I see lot of comments questioning why can't they move to another provider. When you start using any of the cloud providers there so many services you start using and then you start building integrations, email notifications, api gateways, and what not. This makes it very difficult to move all the established processes.

[vilanye]

This is why I don't use AWS or any "cloud" provider. That is not 100% true. I have 110 GB or so of personal data backed up on Glacier. The bill is 6 cents a month, and they obviously don't charge my card.

It may take longer to start, but owning all your servers is cheaper in the long run.

At the very least, don't lock yourself into one provider. Spread out any services you use.

More than one company has screwed itself over permanently by tying itself to a single service. At the end of the day, it is the extremely poor decision to follow the trend of locking oneself into a single company that dooms it.

You would think people would have learned the lesson to avoid lock-in by now. It is absolutely Darwinian at this point.