A few weeks ago, someone said to me at a conference dinner, almost apologetically, “We’d love to move away from AWS, but it’s just impossible.” I’ve heard this phrase often enough, in one form or another, to recognize what lies behind it. Frustration. Uncertainty. That nagging feeling that the major cloud providers are now so deeply intertwined with everything that there’s no escaping them. And every time, I recognize that feeling: that mix of inevitability, a slight pang of guilt, and the...
Boring Is Beautiful: Why Self-Sufficient Clouds Don’t Need the Hyperscaler Buffet
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