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    Jack Christian

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    Can you be too reliant on Cloud Products?

    I'm building an app using Firebase and an AI platform. I have done the calculations and set budgets to avoid huge billing costs. I am still a little nervous after seeing horror stories of people with huge bills from Google Cloud, AWS, Vercel and many other places. I like the fast building these platforms provide but also feel overly reliant on them. Do you think you can be too dependent upon...
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    Can you be too dependent on cloud products?

    I am building an app using Firebase and Deepgram's Speech-to-Text API. They have allowed me to expedite the build process but I am now worried that I am overly reliant on these cloud platforms and that I may end up with a huge bill down the line. Do you think it is a bad idea to build something entirely with cloud products in terms of cost and getting locked into certain vendors like Google?
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