Cloud Native Conference 2025

Cloud adoption often traps businesses—especially in retail, travel, media, and gaming—in "cloud chaos" that creates runaway costs and erodes margins due to hidden drains like vendor lock-in and high data egress fees. To overcome this and achieve Economic Sovereignty, CIOs and CFOs must secure budget control and the freedom to bargain and innovate without financial handcuffs. The roadmap involves three pillars: architecting for portability by design, ensuring clear cost transparency, and planning your exit strategy before you enter. By prioritising open source solutions and implementing service abstraction layers, organisations can decouple applications from proprietary tech, ensuring agility, independence, and significant, sustained cost reductions compared to hyperscalers.