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I am genuinely amazed by the stuff Amazon does sometimes. There are many times this would have made my life so much easier. Feels like cloud providers are becoming more like language frameworks over time. I guess its a kind of lock in, but no more than your locked into .NET Framework or Boost or Underscore I suppose.

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I'm a big fan of this stuff myself so don't get me wrong, but I think it is still a little bit worse to be locked into a cloud provider which can change rates/pricing on you any time, then being locked into a framework.

> which can change rates/pricing on you any time, then being locked into a framework.

I absolutely agree with the sentiment, so don't get me wrong, but have any cloud provider ever did so? And most importantly, given that such change would impact user confidence, would it really be worth on the long term?

Of course there are several other reasons to avoid vendor lock-in, but as far as "major bad faith pricing change" goes, I believe it's unlikely.

Ah, I'd like to prove myself wrong in less than one minute: gcp's pricing change on maps services.

Or fuel provider, ISP, water and other utilities and so on. So many vendor lock ins, so little time.

I recall Google App Engine jacking up their prices: http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/9/7/what-google-app-eng...

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