&gt; google and microsoft moving forward api standardization<p>Google maybe.<p>Microsoft never - if it&#x27;s one thing that is in their DNA than it&#x27;s they always have undocumented API edge cases, so they can change them right in front of a competitor - they have a very long history doing that. Ask Apple (Word, IE, etc), DOS-competitors (DR-DOS, etc), IBM (OS&#x2F;2, DOS, OpenOffice, Lotus, etc), &quot;open&quot; Office format (docx, xlsx, pptx = weird XML serialization of their old binary OLE2 based Office format), Win16API, Win32API, NTkernel API, and many more.<p>You are right with AWS.