Re: Wall Street push AWS to raise price significantly
Any specific examples that make your predictions true?
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That is true if you made the mistake to use AWS as a data center and not as a cloud services provider. If you start using their other services, you will likely find serious savings and opportunities. But then I heard people saying that's lock-in because you când move to other cloud provider... You can't claim lock in after you use a superior service and then you hate not having it if you want to move out...
In reality, over 70% (likely much more) will leave VMware and Broadcom because Broadcom has been in incredibly irresponsible and unprofessional and literally bullied a lot of customers. I was shocked to be part of how Broadcom treated many long term users of VMware and they all are moving away. And most quite like VMware Tech and could have been happy on it for a few more years.
I don't think there is a good understanding of the concept of vendor lock in. Vendor lock in is intentional, when you as a client agree to a contract that has punitive clauses in it in case you want to leave.
Getting into using a product because it is technically apealing, has features you can't build yourself, has security you can't build yourself etc. is not lock in.
Imagine a small company that creates the new youtube. They did not have to build datacenters, extremely performant technologies for fast scale up and down and yet they get to use that for a few hundred dollars during development and then scale as needed. Of course the cost scales too, you get to use shit you would have not invented yourself in 50 years, to run your app at global adoption rates of today.
Lock in is not providing good, innovative services, technology etc.; it is signing contracts on the golf courts and then finding out that you need to pay fines to get away!