<story><title>Amazon AppFlow</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/appflow/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zmmmmm</author><text>I really wonder about all these services that eat into the layers of implementation that organisations usually do in house, but at the same time quick form a complex web of lock in that prevents you ever leaving Amazon. It seems to me that these services are very seductive but there are very few cases where it&amp;#x27;s truly in an organisation&amp;#x27;s long term interest to adopt them. At best, use them as a quick interim solution to bootstrap what you are building and then use that as your requirements for an open source or at least vendor-neutral equivalent.&lt;p&gt;Curious what the HN crowd thinks about this issue?</text></comment>
<story><title>Amazon AppFlow</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/appflow/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lilfermat</author><text>This is an interesting addition to AWS! I wonder how is this better than stitch or fivetran? It’s not immediately clear to me. Also I am doing the back the envelope math. It seems like app flow cost more than our current usage of stitch or even fivetran to our redshift warehouse and doesn’t even include some of our bigger other sources we use (MySQL, stripe). I am gonna do more analysis on this and see if this can be a potential cost saver for us in the longer. 
It’s exciting to see more competition in this space none the less.</text></comment>