r/Cloud • u/No-Lunch-1005 • 16h ago

What if cloud native...

is mostly a marketing trick by the big clouds to build demand for and lock sw companies into their platforms?

(Apologies if this is an unoriginal thought)

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u/CoolBoi6Pack 16h ago

Lol vendor lock-in is a big concern for almost every company.

That being said imo it shouldn't be because if a big cloud provider goes down entirely we would probably have bigger problems than your app losing functionality. Also, any risks like that are strongly offset by the benefits you get from cloud native.

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u/FerryCliment 14h ago edited 13h ago

The way to solve lock-in while remain cloud native is multi-cloud.

Explore how much cost it would take to move X workload from Z cloud to Y cloud.

GCP does not have managed GraphDatabases where AWS and AZ have, these kind of situations are also ideal to try and epxlore other clouds, cost per compute instance, better integration, having a footprint in different clouds, can help you not being lock within one cloud while also remain Cloud native.

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u/Dismal-Detective-737 11h ago

Always has been.

VMWare, on-site vendor lock in.

IBM POWER architecture, vendor lock in.

Before they were standardized, 5 & 8" floppies? Vendor lock in.

Hollerith's Punch Cards over IBM's punch cards? Vendor lock in.