This is true but you’ll have these risks with any paid service/dependency that has non-zero migration cost. Startups still use such products all the time, assuming that a huge price spike is not that likely or that there’s going to be some viable alternative with a migration path. I’d say it’s quite different when you can’t even guess what your starting point is going to be once you hit those $10M.
But I do agree with the general argument that lock-in as this for your core technologies (a database certainly counts) should be avoided.
But I do agree with the general argument that lock-in as this for your core technologies (a database certainly counts) should be avoided.