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The Hidden Costs of Cloud Provider Vendor Lock-in

By Andrew Jennings · Published December 15, 2023

AWS and Azure make it incredibly easy to migrate data in, but punitively expensive to migrate it out. Here is how to architect for cloud-agnostic resilience.

The public cloud was promised to be a cost-saving utopia. Instead, many enterprises find themselves trapped by predatory egress fees and proprietary serverless architectures that make migrating to a competitor financially ruinous.

Cloud-Agnostic Architecture

To maintain leverage over cloud providers, your applications must be designed for portability. This means embracing Kubernetes for container orchestration and avoiding proprietary database services where possible. By maintaining a sovereign infrastructure strategy, you retain the ability to negotiate pricing or migrate workloads seamlessly to on-premise Proxmox clusters when cloud costs become prohibitive.

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