It’s not that difficult to understand. When we move to any new technology, we increase risk. Risk of lock-in, failure, and, most commonly, the risk of building solutions that don’t return enough value to the business.
Gartner surveys have underscored the emerging risk of cloud concentration. They emphasize the potential wide-scale impact of business continuity failures associated with overdependence on a single cloud provider.
This is one of the most frequently asked questions from my clients moving to the cloud, and for good reason. They already saw what occurs when you put too many eggs in a single enterprise technology basket, meaning lock-in and overdependence on that specific company. They don’t want to repeat this mistake as they move to cloud-based platforms.
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