Cloud dependency rarely starts with a massive strategic decision. It accumulates quietly through thousands of reasonable technical choices until switching becomes a multi-million dollar constraint.
The core issues:
- Egress fees consume 10 to 15 percent of total monthly cloud budgets
- AI workloads accelerate lock-in due to provider-specific GPU hardware and proprietary tooling
- Enterprise migration costs range from $500,000 to millions when leaving a vendor
The fix:
- Standardize on portable environment definitions at the delivery layer
- Build pipelines using open standards rather than vendor-specific APIs
- Maintain true architectural optionality before proprietary dependencies stack up
Why it matters:
Portability gives your team real leverage during contract renewals and prevents pricing changes or service deprecations from disrupting your roadmap.
Check out the full technical artcile for the complete breakdown and migration reference architecture:
The real cost of hyperscaler dependency | Upsun
AWS, Azure and GCP hold 60% of cloud infrastructure. See how hyperscaler dependency erodes your leverage — and what real portability requires
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