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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That entirely depends on who deeply they've locked themselves into a single-vendor set of services. If they used an abstraction tool to hide vendor-specific implementation detail, and were moderately smart, it'd take little besides minor config changes, redeployment and some regression testing.

Source: I've done it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

were moderately smart

This is mostly the problem in a lot of cases. A lot of companies don't pay you to be smart... they pay you to be "efficient" which normally means cheap.

Good and skilled people may be in a lot of these companies... but their hands may be tied in terms of choices.