A long-time AWS advocate shares why he eventually left the platform after 15 years, citing frustrations with DynamoDB costs, egress pricing, IAM complexity, Lambda vendor lock-in, and AWS cloning open-source projects. He recently returned briefly to test Claude on AWS Bedrock and benchmark code on a large EC2 instance, only to have his account suspended for suspected security breach. His business email via WorkMail stopped working, and after days of waiting, AWS support still hadn't resolved the issue — reinforcing his decision to fully migrate away from AWS.
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