Multi-Cloud Custody and Vendor Lock-in Insurance Platform

C6/10April 3, 2026

WhatA platform that helps enterprises maintain portable, multi-cloud deployments with automated failover, so they aren't held hostage when a primary cloud relationship deteriorates — essentially 'cloud custody' management.

SignalCommenters describe the Microsoft-OpenAI breakup as a 'custody battle' and investors express alarm at trillion-dollar value destruction from vendor dependency — there's visceral fear about being locked into a single cloud provider's fate.

Why NowOpenAI's public move to diversify away from Azure, combined with AWS and GCP aggressively courting switchers, has made multi-cloud portability an urgent strategic priority rather than a theoretical nice-to-have.

MarketMid-to-large enterprises spending $100K-$10M+ annually on cloud; TAM is a slice of the $600B+ cloud market; competes with HashiCorp and Pulumi but focused on live portability and failover rather than just provisioning.

MoatAbstraction layer and migration tooling that accumulates deep knowledge of provider-specific quirks; switching costs increase as customers route more workloads through the platform.

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