> Everyone complains about vendor "lock in" for anything AWS related, and I've never thought so since they've always reduced prices across the board.
How would keeping prices high for these services keep people locked in? The whole point of vendor lock in is there is some other indirect cost that you bear by switching, which is why you don't switch.
For AWS, this indirect cost is bandwidth. It is the lock in mechanism.
> How would keeping prices high for these services keep people locked in?
By doing the opposite and raising prices across the board randomly because they know folks can't spend the time and money to migrate without a large support burden or time/money sunk cost.
The only service not going down in price is egress and the only thing I've seen which has been like this, to directly discourage folks from migrating their data to say GCP when their offering(s) look more attractive.
How would keeping prices high for these services keep people locked in? The whole point of vendor lock in is there is some other indirect cost that you bear by switching, which is why you don't switch.
For AWS, this indirect cost is bandwidth. It is the lock in mechanism.