How Good Is Your Cloud Exit Strategy?
InfoWorld, Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026
InfoWorld argues enterprises need a cloud exit architecture so systems can move between providers when pricing, regulation or risk changes.
The article says many enterprises assumed they could leave a cloud provider, but system design often makes exit too expensive to be a real option.
It frames cloud exit architecture not as abandoning the cloud or native services but as designing systems that can move when pricing, regulation, outages or business priorities change.
Portability is presented as a business risk control rather than a narrow technical goal.
Key lock-in areas it examines include identity, data stored in proprietary services, cloud-specific networking and infrastructure-as-code templates, along with monitoring, secrets and deployment pipelines.