And yet, most of those success stories about ditching the cloud are from people that were not using services with hard vendor lock-ins.

Reading author's article:

> For me, that meant:

> RDS for the PostgreSQL database (my biggest monthly cost, in fact)

> EC2 for the web server (my 2nd biggest monthly cost)

> Elasticache for Redis

https://rameerez.com/how-i-exited-the-cloud/