Enterprises wrestle with a dilemma at the start of every cloud journey. Should they opt for a cloud-native, cloud-agnostic, or cloud-portable approach?
The idea of committing to a single service provider makes them wary. What if they are stuck with the same service provider forever? The fear of vendor lock-in is so real that many opt for cloud-agnostic services.
But a cloud-agnostic approach means maintaining self-managed clusters—a logistical nightmare of its own!
To our enterprise client who leaned toward cloud-agnostic, we suggested a cloud-portable approach, which offers the best of both worlds.
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