How exposed are you to cloud dependency? A multicloud assessment for IT leaders

Cloud dependency can become costly and difficult to reverse when organizations need to migrate workloads, meet regulatory requirements, expand into new regions, or recover from outages, so the assessment proposes evaluating exposure before such changes become urgent. It measures four separate areas—provider dependency, migration friction, workflow inconsistency, and governance gaps—using a 0-to-3 scale, with total scores indicating whether an organization is healthy, has meaningful exposure, or has embedded dependency into its operating model. Warning signs include maintaining separate CI/CD pipelines for each provider, manually gathering audit evidence across multiple consoles, and organizing platform teams around provider-specific expertise. The post recommends reducing exposure through a portable Git-based application definition, platform-level policy as code, and a unified delivery workflow across clouds, arguing that these delivery-layer changes can improve portability without requiring an immediate provider migration.

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