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Perhaps for some AWS services (ECS, etc). But I would still stay on amazon for all the other surrounding services that are crucial, SQS, S3, occasionally DynamoDB, Lambda.

I would love to have managed k8s on amazon. It wouldn't move me away because of all those surrounding technologies.

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That's a good point, though there are on-prem and "other vendor" api compatible services for some of those, like S3.

Minio, for example: https://github.com/minio/minio or Google's cloud storage. Both are compatible with the S3 api.

It's only a matter of time until these AWS primative replacements are mature within Kubrnetes, which is definitely a good thing.

AWS is wonderful, but you always have to have tooling ready to not be held hostage by a vendor. And any vendor will hold you hostage once they have enough market dominance or enough of your business.

A great many of those (but not all, I admit) have equivalents on Google Cloud. I know I am somewhat biased (as I work there) but the technology is really great. BigQuery is untouchable. Spanner is magical. CloudML is hands-down the best offering. Etc.

Have you ever considered "what if I didn't presuppose AWS?"

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