The cloud is a great resource, but sometimes a service provider, deployment, or architecture doesn’t provide what you need. Taking steps ahead of time will ensure you don’t get locked into a cloud platform.
Before you migrate an application to the cloud, ask if that workload belongs there in the first place. Questioning whether to migrate an application was more relevant when enterprises were undecided on their cloud future, said Yugal Joshi, Partner at Everest Group. A cloud exit strategy is not cheap. Perform a thorough analysis of the perceived benefit and the total cost to reduce regret later.