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I'm pretty sure we've reached an inflection point with some "technical architects" where they spend more time worrying about vendor lock and doing technical gymnastics to reach portability nirvana instead of just shipping decent code and products that make money.

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YMMV, of course. The problem with lock-in is that you start designing code that is for a given vendor, AWS in this case. Once you find that the vendor either is prohibitive cost or functionality-wise, you will have to spend your development resources untangling the mess rather than shipping value.

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