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Re:Designing a scalable API on AWS spot instances by marcinzm on Thursday July 23, 2020 @09:38AM (#23927229)
>So why do you or your company who uses any of the big 3 use them if you had to cut cost at some point?

Because it takes X hours of effort to cut costs and using another provider would have required Y hours of effort where Y >> X. Y may be greater due to reliability issues, missing features that you need to build yourself, training costs of new employees, etc.

edit: Also X is paid once you're succeeding, Y has to be paid before you're succeeding which makes Y even more expensive in opportunity cost.

Re:Designing a scalable API on AWS spot instances by yellow_mixer on Thursday July 23, 2020 @10:03AM (#23927453)
It’s also much easier to hire engineers to develop and maintain theses platforms.