Cloud Exit Strategy: Pricing the Door Before You Need It

Skipping managed services to stay 'portable' usually costs more than it saves. Instead: isolate vendor calls behind interfaces, keep data exportable, document the seams.

Acquisition mandates, pricing shocks, and regulatory shifts — rarely voluntary, always urgent. The runbook converts panic into project.

Skipping the discipline this article describes until an incident, audit, or stalled project forces it — every practice above is cheaper adopted early than retrofitted under pressure.