From the very beginning i've always strayed far away from anything that locks us into AWS. For this reason we've made no use of anything that couldn't be picked up and moved away, so for us auto scaling was never something we decided to utilize for this exact reason.
While this held us back a bit at first, even tools like SES initially only had an API provided by Amazon. Now it supports standard SMTP connections, so we decided there was no harm in using it as we could easily make a switch with no code changes.
From the very beginning i've always strayed far away from anything that locks us into AWS. For this reason we've made no use of anything that couldn't be picked up and moved away, so for us auto scaling was never something we decided to utilize for this exact reason.
While this held us back a bit at first, even tools like SES initially only had an API provided by Amazon. Now it supports standard SMTP connections, so we decided there was no harm in using it as we could easily make a switch with no code changes.