Exit egress fees died in 2024 and the EU Data Act finishes the job in January 2027. Celebrate briefly. The billing lock died precisely because it was the lock that mattered least, and the four that matter are doing fine.
Three outages inside a month did not prove you need to run production on two clouds. They proved you need a credible, tested ability to leave one. Those are different products with wildly different prices.
AWS had another 'minor hiccup' that only lasted 15 hours and affected over 1,000 companies. Here's why putting all your eggs in one cloud basket is like trusting a single parachute made of spaghetti.
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