Stop worrying about cloud-lock-in, and outages: Gartner

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Gartner: Stop worrying and love the cloud, with all its outages and lock-in

Stop worrying about the resilience of clouds, the possibility you'll be locked-in, or the systemic risks they pose – and instead learn to appreciate their benefits and limitations.

Waite said that concentration of cloud services in three big suppliers – AWS, Microsoft and Google for most of the world, Alibaba, Huawei and Tencent in China – does represent an unhelpful concentration of market power and operational risk. He therefore advised using each cloud's own resiliency features to the maximum extent possible, rather than contemplating active-active multi-cloud failover rigs.

"If you've if you've worked in IT for any period of time, you've always been locked in in some way," he said."Perhaps it was VMware in a datacenter. Perhaps it was Cisco for your network. You were happy to accept that lock-in because those vendors gave you fantastic capabilities that you could leverage and use.

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