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Michiel Hendriks

And there you have it. Using open source to try to achieve a cloud lock-in. It's the same trick. But this time Microsoft has a huge competitor which has the same goal to lock in users into their services.

Don't build for AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. Build for things which can run on either platform.

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David S.

Amen brother.

So many devs and operations dudes falling for the lock in these days. Amazon is really bad about it. I have actively been fighting this and encouraging the use of open source alternatives for every organization i manage the servers for.

At some point, the companies that fell for proprietary implementations are going to find themselves in some really deep shit when Microsoft/Google/Amazon decide to pull the plug on some critical function that they could have just implemented on the server with common linux software..