Stole this idea from @daedalus - the cloud is the new mainframe. Since then we had a few decades of hardware and software portability. And we are now back at "pick a cloud vendor and lock yourself in".
@daedalus to this I also say "well done everyone".
@bert_hubert It is possible to decouple but it's not trivial. Extremely worthwhile, though. You can save an absolute fortune. The state of web dev these days, my $DEITY.
@daedalus From this same presentation, after some bragging about opentk.nl and galmon.eu: