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This is pretty rare, and it's getting rarer. Clouds are successfully locking people in volume discounts, proprietary technology (like AWS Aurora), and non-transferrable configuration tasks. I agree that cloud-agnostic tooling should exist, but as a for-profit company trying to find a large customer base, it's not a big market.
Then call my Fortune 100 bank rare. Everything we do is going with a multi-cloud strategy where it makes sense, especially around secrets management and infrastructure as code.
OK: it’s rare. You actually proved it’s rare by telling me that it’s a large bank and a Fortune 100 company.
Most people are neither banks nor Fortune 100 firms.