I think it's important to warn "parents" (or future parents) to avoid this particular tragedy, which I think is quite avoidable. I want to encourage people to question the orthodoxy around cloud, that everyone is doing it so its fine, and worse is better anyway, yada yada. It may be insensitive to use your situation to illustrate the downside of cloud vendor lock-in, but my motivation is not to look down on you, but to warn others about this very real, very painful outcome that they court when they make the popular choice.
We happened to not use any vendor-specific APIs.
And it still killed us to fork our stack, and to teach our kiosks to be able to talk to the right server, and the extra cost of the servers in France, and the lack of support we saw from the provider in France...
It's embittering, hardens the heart, and makes you want to give up, but you've gotta redouble and bust through it.
And by all means, shame the provider if they didn't live up to their end of the bargain.
Sorry if I don’t follow your reasoning, I’m still stuck at this piece of USA policy you seemed to have glossed over:
> Sec. 14. Privacy Act. Agencies shall, to the extent consistent with applicable law, ensure that their privacy policies exclude persons who are not United States citizens or lawful permanent residents from the protections of the Privacy Act regarding personally identifiable information.
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2017-01-30/pdf/2017-0...
Just as France accords its own citoyens rights that foreigners aren't entitled to.
But thanks for lecturing me that "vendor lock in" was what killed our 6-developer team that was developing hardware, and computer vision, and 3D computer graphics, while developing a health care product under the tons of regulation that comes with that.
Your arrogance is just stunning.