On: “Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in” (2017)

[thekingofh]

The problem with that is, there's only one thing, some product manager somewhere, that sits on a light switch of your company or project's success or failure. They could even unintentionally end you with a price change.

[scarface74 → thekingofh]

AWS supports everything...forever.

For instance, putting your EC2 instances in a VPC has been the preferred way of operating since 2009. But, if you have an account old enough, you can still create an EC2 instance outside of a VPC.

You can still use the same SQS API from 2006 as far as I know.

[jlarocco → scarface74]

> AWS supports everything...forever.

Maybe "AWS and cloud infrastructure" will be to modern companies what COBOL and mainframes were to the big companies of 50 years ago.

No doubt somebody will be happy to charge you to support it for a long time...

[tedivm → scarface74]

They even still offer "reduced redundancy storage" even though it's been made obsolete (and is more expensive than the regular S3 storage).

[taneq → thekingofh]

And we see this here regularly, as with the Google Maps API price hike.

[scarface74 → taneq]

No you just see that with Google...a company not exactly known for its customer relations.

[hopler → scarface74]

And Oracle, and IBM, and every company that doesn't pour every dollar of profit into growth marketing to continue redoubling down with investor money.

[scarface74 → hopler]

AWS drives most of Amazon’s profits these days. It isn’t running at a loss.

[scarface74 → scarface74]

Source:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/27/amazon_q1_2018_earn...

[halbritt → thekingofh]

In the immortal words of @vgill, "You own your availability."