Wow, what layer of abstraction do you have that allows for that? Even with typical IaC, Terraform, it's going to be a rewrite. If you're leveraging anything beyond load balancers, compute, and containers I don't see how that approaches zero. Some of the services could end up with you having to build/run your own to get any equivalence.

Why is it so hard time for some of this site to understand that some of us are principled when it comes to choosing technologies? Or you know, actually learned from past trauma and make choice to avoid getting burned in the future.

Not all of us are enlightened. Wouldn't you mind telling us what those technologies are?

Ansible comes to mind. Used it to orchestrate hundreds of servers with migrations. Could also simply set up proxmox services beforehand if you're truly motivated, then just replicate the server to another instance.

And all networking configuration and everything else is transferred with close to zero effort?

You could roll your own SDN with the likes of wireguard.

Hello, may I interest you in NixOS? All your config, in one place, build it again and you got a copy. :)

Their username says it all: https://landscape.cncf.io/

Exactly. At the startup I work for, we built from the old methods of bare metal, and integrate cloud services as needed. At any time though, if we are not satisfied with sed service, we're able to jump ship without headache pretty easily. As simple as spinning up a new container cluster elsewhere, migrating data, and ramping down the old. The founders were very clear on never being entrenched into a singular provider.

Probably because most employees don't get to pick and choose the tech stacks? You're either being incredibly obtuse or I'm missing your point.

Uh, I not implying or saying anything about who has the power. My comment is kinda hard to read in any other way than directed at the people who chose to intimately tie their product up with a proprietary price-gouging, lock-in platform.

Idk, I guess if I take the less charitable read of your comment, ... if you're sitting here blaming your circumstances for not knowing anything other than how to spin up overpriced Amazon serives idk what to tell you.

I think this is about preventing sanctioned countries or individuals using US technology we don't want them to have access too (like China not having modern GPUs). That goal seems reasonable though there's always a fear that the law is way broader than the high level intent. Why would it be "an absolute nightmare" if it's so easy to migrate?

That's the stated goal. The actual goal is more likely complete knowledge of any person using IaaS service whether domestic or foreign and what they're up to.

Yeah, mass surveillance.

I meant an absolute nightmare of a bill in general and for the IaaS providers. The US is winning the AI race because of their open ecosystem and capability to execute and these types of things hurt that bad.