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How cloud portability becomes an expensive illusion

I built our entire architecture around being cloud-native and vendor-agnostic but every meaningful feature requires some AWS-specific service and now we are more locked in than when we ran our own servers.

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The pursuit of vendor independence through abstraction often leads to deeper forms of technological dependence.

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