> use 'which' not 'witch', quite different words
Thanks and sorry for my English, even if I use it for work I do not normally use it conversationally and as a result it's still very poor for me...
Well I do not specifically talk about AWS, but in general living on someone else is much more expensive in OPEX than what it can be spared in CAPEX, and it's a deeply critical liability, specially when we start to develop on someone else API instead of just deploy something "standard" we can always move unchanged.
Yes, technical debt is a big issue but is a relative issue because if you can't maintain your own infra you can't be safe anyway, the "initial easiness" means a big disaster sooner or later, and the more later it is the more expensive it will be. Of course an unipersonal startup can't have on it's own iron offsite backups, geo replication and so on, but dose the MINIMUM usage of third party services trying to be as standard and vendor independent as possible until you earn enough to own it's definitively possible at any scale.
Unfortunately it's a thing we almost lost since now Operation essentially does not exists anymore except for few giants, Devs have no substantial skill since they came from "quick" full immersion bootcamps where they learned just to do repetitive things with specific tools like modern Ford model workers able only to turn a wrench and still most of the management fails to understand IT for what it is, not "computers" like astronomers telescopes, but information, like stars for astronomers. This toxic mix have allowed very few to earn hyper big positions, but they start to collapse because their commercial model is technically untenable and we start all paying the high price.