What really bugs me about this is that it reminds me of the dotcom days. Microsoft ASP stacks made it easier to find less experienced developers to quickly develope sites, no one having an awareness of optimisation and instead would throw hardware at it. Large clusters of DEC Alpha servers would handle the same amount of traffic as a single FreeBSD on a PC, but this cost difference wasn't a problem when investor cash flowed easily and shifting Microsoft and Cisco products fed into the revenues of the system integrators which was fine since revenue growth mattered more than profits.

I've seen this with many AWS deployments, which on a pure hardware cost is 3-5 times more, but with the way it makes it 'easy' to scale instead of optimise instead costs 10-20 times more. When the investor cash starts drying up and the focus is going to be on competing for profits in a market that is much smaller in general, many organisations are going to find themselves locked into AWS and for them it's going to feel like IE6 and asp.net all over again.