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The Hidden Costs of Cloud Lock-In for Enterprise AI
In this episode of The Cloud Business Podcast, Lucas and Luna unpack the often-overlooked contractual lock-in mechanisms that cloud providers use to keep enterprises tied to their AI platforms. They focus on a specific case: how API-level dependencies on proprietary services like AWS Bedrock and Azure OpenAI create switching costs that far exceed data egress fees. Lucas breaks down the math—how a single inference call can entrench a company's entire ML pipeline—and Luna questions whether the new GPU availability guarantees in contracts actually reduce risk or deepen dependency. The hosts…
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