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Yes. It's an urban legend if you really get down to it, or so the official debunkings go, but nevertheless the underlying issue is still true. You don't want to build your Amazon competitor on AWS, you don't want to build your Google competitor on their cloud, etc. Even if you can completely write off true sabotage as a threat, there's other real issues, like the needs of the platform vendor simply diverging from yours over time.


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