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Yeah, based on my own experience with AWS and Azure (that has nothing to do with Linked In), my immediate reaction to the headline was, "well, you can be keen on Azure, but "stuck" on AWS for a myriad of other reasons". Reading the article pretty confirmed it.

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this describes github to a tee.

think very hard before you start building your cloud-native application on a specific cloud

I'm not sure how this has anything to do with AWS. But I guess you can use it to confirm your idea about vendor lock-in if you're bound and determined to convince yourself you're right. For what it's worth, working at AWS, I see a lot of companies who use Entra for AD and then federate into AWS using that.

I think you misunderstood OPs anecdote and took it a little personally?

They were simply saying that much as you can love one platform there are many valid reasons why your deployment on another makes it hard to shift that and recapture that configuration. Nowhere did they intimate it was a fault of the current platforms capabilities...

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