aserdp

You are right about this, as it is now, it looks more of a vendor lock-in gimmick

What has always bothered me is AWS comes up with a service which is half cooked and doesnt answer the true requirement of the application. I have used almost all of AWS offering in different contexts and every time, when we really needed the action, it failed miserably.

I believe, AWS should concentrate on its core offering and that of being a awesome IaaS. It needs to fix it severe and long downtimes and many such core issues, unpredictable network performances, etc