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The fees are for fraud prevention and sanctions compliance. That stuff costs real money.

The leaps in this writing pain me. There are other aspects, but they’ve been mentioned enough.

Vendor lock in does not come about by relying only on one cloud, but by adopting non-standard technology and interfaces. I do agree that running on multiple providers is the best way of checking if there is lock-in.

Lowering the level of sharing further by running per-service and per-stage clusters, as mentioned in the piece was likewise at best an uninformed decision.

Naturally moving to AWS and letting dedicated teams handle workload orchestration at much higher scale will yield better efficiencies. Ideally without giving up vendor-agnostic deployments by continuing the use of IaC.

I dig the “scalping a Thomas the Tank Engine” look. Good product.

I have to take at least 2 consecutive weeks once every year. Switzerland.

Yes they are, but the labels don't change when the setting is toggled.

It says what it is, and the toggle says if it's on or off.

The toggle is just a visual, it can be tapped just like a checkbox.