You don't necessarily have to host this yourself. With this, there's a relatively straightforward (but obviously not necessarily easy) way for Joe Entrepreneur to set up a hosted service to compete with AWS Lambda, thus helping the community avoid vendor lock-in.
So can Joe Entrepreneur also host my databases? my storage? My CDN around the world? My ElasticSearch cluster? My Redis cluster? All of my objects? Can he provide 24 hour support? Can he duplicate my data center for my developers in India so they don’t have lag? What about my identity provider? My Active Directory?
Can he do all that across multiple geographically dispersed redundant data centers?
I think you're missing the point - you may need to move to your own infrastructure for security, privacy, regulatory or accountability reasons. You may encounter new needs which AWS may no longer meet, cheap bandwidth for example (AWS bandwidth is both way overpriced and on some rather poor networks). Or Amazon may decide that the price of all their serivces is now going up by a factor of 5 and if you have your attitude, well, you're stuck paying for it.
Having relatively easy to spin up alternatives is a great thing. I can run my application entirely on a local kubernetes cluster or one on Amazon, DigitalOcean or Google's cloud services. That sort of flexibility is excellent and has allowed us to scale into situations where we otherwise couldn't have affordably done so (being able to buy some bandwidth from Joe Entrepreneur has it's benefits sometimes).
I think you're missing the point - you may need to move to your own infrastructure for security, privacy, regulatory or accountability reasons.
Which compliance regulation require you not to use a cloud provider? At most they may require you to not share a server with another company - that can be done with a drop down - or the data has to be hosted locally - again that can be done by selecting a region.
>Which compliance regulation require you not to use a cloud provider?
The policies that say not to use a company controlled by the US government. Or the ones that say under no circumstances should the data be sent over the Internet to a third party "because OPs are hard".
Which regulation or policy? Which certification? Name names. It’s not any of the financial, legal, or health care compliance regulations that I’m aware of.
In short most of German laws make it incredibly risky (but not forbidden) to use any american company for any kind of data that can be resolved to the underlying person. (Eg. a lot of companies got their warning shot when "safe harbor" exploded, if the same happens with https://www.privacyshield.gov/welcome a world of shit awaits)
Yeah I can see explaining to our business customers who grill us about the reliability of our infrastructure that we host our infrastructure on Digital Ocean....
You realize the databases I’m referring to are hosted versions of MySql/Postgres, the ElasticSearch cluster is just that standard ElasticSearch, and Redis is just that - Redis and you can setup a CDN anywhere?
Even if you chose to use AWS’s OLAP database,Redshift, it uses standard Postgres drivers to connect. You could move it to a standard Postgres installation. You wouldn’t get the performance characteristics of course.
If you don’t want to be “locked in” to DynamoDB, there is always the just announced Mongo compatible DocumentDB. Of course ADFS is used everywhere.
Why in the world would I want to manage a colo with all of those services myself and still not have any geographic redundancy - let alone any place near our outsourced developers?
None of my list is esoteric - a website with a caching layer, a database, a CDN, a search index, and a user pool that can survive a data center outage and some place to store assets.
