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AWS certainly isn’t the only cloud provider on earth, and there’s no single service it offers that can’t be replicated elsewhere at a comparable or sometimes lower price. But although Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform offer some serious products, AWS is by all measures the biggest player in this market.

You’ve probably already heard this old joke: no one ever got fired for choosing IBM. The idea was that IBM’s size and history made choosing its products and services the safe choice. These days? AWS is probably getting close to IBM status.

Of course, that’s only a joke. Sometimes, safe choices can lead to disaster. And there’s still plenty of risk to be found in AWS: finding yourself so heavily invested in uniquely AWS ...

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