It’s not that difficult to understand. When we move to any new technology, we increase risk. Risk of lock-in, failure, and, most commonly, the risk of building solutions that don’t return enough value to the business.
Gartner surveys have underscored the emerging risk of cloud concentration. They emphasize the potential wide-scale impact of business continuity failures associated with overdependence on a single cloud provider.
This is one of the most frequently asked questions from my clients moving to the cloud, and for good reason.