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Kubernetes vs AWS?
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openstack vs aws/azure/gcp/... would make more sense.
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> Kubernetes vs AWS?

How is this even a direct comparison? Most companies I know of which use Kubernetes are using it on a cloud provider. Even if it's kubernetes on EC2 rather than hosted e.g. EKS, those companies are also happy to use lock-in services like RDS and S3.

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Kubernetes vs EKS?
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Here is a counterexample to whatever counterexample you have in mind -

Most popular models on OpenRouter right now: https://openrouter.ai/models?categories=programming&order=mo...

Top 7 are all open models.

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There very little reason to use OpenRouter to access closed models, instead of just using the provider directly.
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One big reason I can think of is to avoid vendor lock-in. This is why most enterprises use a multi-cloud setup, despite the increased complexity.
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If you're only using the frontier providers, it's nearly trivial to support switching between the 2-3 of them that exist without using OpenRouter.

If you are ALSO routing to open-weights models on OpenRouter, then sure. But what we've come back to is that almost everyone using OpenRouter is someone who wants to use open-weights models, and some of them also want to use closed models, so of course open models take all the top spots.

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Most enterprises are multi-cloud in that they have multiple direct contracts with different cloud providers.
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>This is why most enterprises use a multi-cloud setup

Going to have to say citation needed on this, if you're suggesting most enterprises have infra-as-code that would allow them to switch their entire infra between vendors within a month.

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Interesting you'd find that on a site called __open__ router.
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