Debunking the Cloud Agnostic Delusion

The cloud is indispensable for modern businesses, but how they approach their cloud strategy is up for debate. Every now and then, new terms, buzzwords, and acronyms pop up in the already crowded cloud thesaurus. For the uninitiated, each novel term and acronym might seem like a groundbreaking concept, tempting them to hop on the bandwagon. While some of these concepts and strategies effectively solve existing challenges, others end up creating new problems in trying to address mere hypotheticals.

Cloud agnosticism, in its pure and true form, can very well belong to the latter. 

On the surface, it sounds like a promising idea — no more vendor lock-ins, ultra-flexibility, multi-cloud redundancy, and finally, negotiating leverage. So, why don’t all organizations simply become cloud agnostic? Basically, it’s like telling someone on the verge of a panic attack to simply “not panic”. “Not panicking” requires complex psychomedical intervention. Likewise, there’s nothing simple about becoming cloud agnostic. 

Cloud Agnostic is Not Multi-cloud

Cloud agnosticism, a rather niche architectural approach for very specific considerations and business needs, is unfortunately often mistaken or used interchangeably with multi-cloud, which most organizations deploy by default anyway. Multi-cloud suggests a best-of-breed approach in which businesses, instead of being tied to a single cloud platform, use the most suitable tools for particular tasks, regardless of the platform. It allows you to leverage the best features of each cloud platform. 

Cloud agnosticism, on the other hand, is the ability to move workloads seamlessly between different providers. The idea behind cloud agnostic development and techniques is to grant organizations the freedom to choose where and when they want to deploy particular workloads. All applications and resources are designed to be platform-independent, so they can be deployed across multiple clouds or shifted seamlessly, as and when needed, to competing providers. 

The Hype: Why Cloud Agnostic is Appealing

Unexpected price hikes or service/performance downgrades aren’t unheard of in the cloud computing market. Google, for instance, has a reputation for raising its prices or monetizing previously free services. More recently, Microsoft also quietly capped OneDrive’s formerly unlimited data storage for businesses. Sudden shifts in policy or pricing can catch businesses off guard, who then have little choice but to comply with the vendor’s terms since they’re too dependent on their services. 

Cloud agnostic architecture removes this dependency by strictly forbidding the use of any proprietary tools, technologies, or services that can tie organizations or their workloads to a specific vendor. Instead, it embraces vendor-neutral platforms and tools, like Kubernetes for container orchestration and Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and management. If the pricing, SLAs, or coverage of your CSP don’t work for you anymore, you can simply switch to the next one…. Well, ideally, at least!

Read the full blog article: https://emma.ms/blog/debunking-the-cloud-agnostic-delusion

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