Seems like nowadays people seem less concerned with vendor lockin than they were 15 years ago. One of the reason to want to avoid lockin is to be able to move when the price gouging gets just a little bit too greedy that the move is worth the cost. One of the drawbacks of all these built in services at AWS is the expense of trying to recreate the architecture elsewhere.

And yet, most of those success stories about ditching the cloud are from people that were not using services with hard vendor lock-ins.

Reading author's article:

> For me, that meant:

> RDS for the PostgreSQL database (my biggest monthly cost, in fact)

> EC2 for the web server (my 2nd biggest monthly cost)

> Elasticache for Redis

https://rameerez.com/how-i-exited-the-cloud/