If Your Cloud Won't Let You Leave, It's Not the Cloud for You
Techstrong.IT, Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
Most people know what a bad relationship feels like. There are warning signs. Loss of flexibility. Decisions that get harder over time. A growing sense that leaving would be more painful than staying.
Cloud strategy could use the same lens.
A lot of companies didn't choose their cloud relationship so much as they fell into it. A team shipped fast, a service worked well, a migration started, and suddenly, most of the business runs on one provider. It feels fine at first. Convenient, even. Until you realize how hard it would be to leave.
That's usually the moment people start describing their architecture like a long-term relationship they're not sure how to get out of.