Cloud Exit

Many organizations adopt cloud infrastructure without developing a cloud exit strategy.

• True

• False

Regulatory demands may require organizations to address cloud provider risks.

• True

• False

Lots of organisations leave their cloud provider.

• False

• True

Several regulators, mainly focused on financial services, now mandate an exit strategy.

• True

• False

Locked-in with a single provider and service failure threatens multiple applications.

• Risk of Dependency

• Risk of Law

• Risk of uptime

• Risk of Costs

Increased costs, increased complexity, decreased developer productivity, decreased agility.

• Portability Drawbacks

• Legislation Drawbacks

_____ renewal issues. A cause for exit.

A major cause of exits.

• Downtime

• Apps

• Encryption

• Upgrades

Organisation should have an exit strategy document for each cloud-dependent application.

• True

• False

• Maybe

Most exits will be gradual, over the period of

• one or two years

• six months

• two to three years

• over three years