egress costs, which is their true and much sneakier vendor lock in trap.

Absolutely. That’s basically Oracle’a db strategy.

Things like this are why I’ll never use AWS, even if I get to a scale where it makes sense. I value the ability to switch to a different provider or self-host with my own hardware.

the only answer is government regulation

Ideally the market is competitive enough that regulation isn’t needed. But maybe that ship has sailed.

I agree with regulations like Net Neutrality, so I guess it would depend on how it’s worded. I’m just worried massive players like AWS would find ways to abuse any regulations we try to make to exclude others.

But yeah, I don’t pitch switching at work, because I’m not in charge of infra or really involved with it at all. I’m a SWE, not a devOPs or IT tech, so if I’m touching anything in Cloudwatch other than looking at logs, something has gone horribly wrong.