Why is it stupid, dangerous and short sighted? People say those things about cloud vendor locking like it's a obvious truth. I really annoyed by this arrogance among my systems minded peer group.
I get where this comes from, but it's too simplistic. Even if your build close around the AWS primitives, why is it harder to migrate away from this when necessary than building the alternative yourself from before you can proof your business or build any MVP.
I'd say use whatever service you helps to get your product out there fast and allows you to iterate quickly. This will also free time to consider your long term options.
The primitives and constraints imposed by a cloud provider often make your life easier even if you migrate to bare metal or another cloud.
I'd even go so far to argue the other way around: You get away with way shittier, less future proof design when running on bare metal and have a ops team taking care of your pets. Not being able to move that to a cloud, private or public, would concern me most.
I get where this comes from, but it's too simplistic. Even if your build close around the AWS primitives, why is it harder to migrate away from this when necessary than building the alternative yourself from before you can proof your business or build any MVP.
I'd say use whatever service you helps to get your product out there fast and allows you to iterate quickly. This will also free time to consider your long term options.
The primitives and constraints imposed by a cloud provider often make your life easier even if you migrate to bare metal or another cloud.
I'd even go so far to argue the other way around: You get away with way shittier, less future proof design when running on bare metal and have a ops team taking care of your pets. Not being able to move that to a cloud, private or public, would concern me most.