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There are other providers that people can move to.
Only if you have been careful from the beginning to design your system in a platform agnostic way and don't rely on AWS specific services and APIs.
The fastest way to convince developers to abandon or avoid services is to start price gouging.
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Only if you have been careful from the beginning to design your system in a platform agnostic way and don't rely on AWS specific services and APIs.
I'm guessing the biggest such service is S3. Other providers offer compatible APIs. The fastest way to convince developers to abandon or avoid services is to start price gouging.
Assuming they did this (and I'm talking 'add a zero to their pricing,' not 'a 5% bump'), it'd juice their revenue for a couple of years and then it would plummet as folks migrated to more economical / trustworthy options.
The cost that Amazon charges for all the extraneous services is priced exactly at the point where someone would rather pay those costs rather than pay developers to go implement them on EC2s.