The thing is, though, even though it's in Amazon's interests to create dependence on AWS, it's also in their customer's interests to use those services.
When you double down on a rich platform you can get enormous advantages. Avoiding the inner platform is a biggie; not paying portability tax is another.
The urge to be independent of any vendor, any platform etc is attractive to us as engineers. But it comes at a high price too.
When you double down on a rich platform you can get enormous advantages. Avoiding the inner platform is a biggie; not paying portability tax is another.
The urge to be independent of any vendor, any platform etc is attractive to us as engineers. But it comes at a high price too.