Comment by tete

> As if anybody could viably stop using them.

To be fair AWS (and GCP and Azure) at least is easy to replace with something else. And pretty much all alternatives are cheaper, less messy, etc. There are very few situations where you cannot viably do so.

We live in a world where you can get things like dedicated servers, etc. within similar time spans as creating a "compute engine" node on a big cloud provider.

The fact that cloud services added serious limitations to what applications were able to do (things like state management, passing configuration in more unified ways, etc.) means that running your own infrastructure is easier than ever, since your devs won't end up whining at you until you do something super custom just for some project to be a bit easier. But if you really want to you can.

GitHub also has become easy to get away from and indeed many individuals and companies did so.

CDNs are the bigger thing but A) there are a lot of other CDNs and B) having an image, or lets say an ansible config allows you to quickly deploy something that might be close enough for your use case. Just take any hosting company or even a dozen around the world.

Of course if you allowed yourself to end up in a complete vendor lock in things might be different, but if you think that it's a good idea to be completely dependent on the whims of some other company maybe you deserve that state. As in don't run a business without having any kind of fallback for decisions you make. Yes, profit from that big benefit something might give you, but don't lock the door behind you.

Sure you might be lucky and sure maybe you are fine going for luck while it lasts. Just don't be surprised when it all shatters.