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How Cloud Providers Lock You In With Vendor Specific Services
Enterprise IT leaders often chase the promise of portability, only to find their architectures hard-locked by proprietary database engines and serverless functions. We explore how vendor-specific services like Amazon DynamoDB or Azure Cosmos DB create data gravity that makes migration prohibitively expensive. Using a concrete example of a mid-sized fintech firm that avoided early lock-in but faced a ten-month re-engineering effort when scaling, we discuss the strategic trade-offs between operational velocity and long-term optionality. The conversation covers practical mitigation strategies…
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