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vendor lock-in

Being tied to one provider because moving away would cost too much.

Vendor lock-in is the cost of switching providers created by proprietary APIs, data formats, identities and rules that would have to be rebuilt elsewhere.

Examples

  • Firmware that publishes to $aws/things/<thing-name>/shadow/... instead of gh1/<device-id>/... ties every deployed greenhouse node to one cloud, since moving means updating devices in the field.

See also

reference architecture device shadow topic tree
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