Comment by lelanthran
15 hours ago
> As a cloud provider you can win business by having something for offboarding, but internally you'd never get buy-in to spend on a backup plan if you decide to move to the cloud.
Its the other way around. How do you think all businesses moved to the cloud in the first place?
My point is that at the point of moving, or creating a new deployment, it's perfectly reasonable to say "how do we get off the cloud if it goes badly", yet no one says "how do we get onto a cloud if managing a datacenter sucks".
The cloud providers win business with at least some hint of offboarding support, but on-prem doesn't have that same incentive.