Cloud "lock-in": Is it real? Should it be avoided? In this session, you’ll find out how embracing the full breadth of Amazon Web Services offerings can help your organization as it strives to achieve business and IT goals over the long term. Geared towards CIOs, CTOs, and anyone tasked with migrating to a virtual private cloud, this presentation will share customer examples, best practices, and tips for taking full advantage of AWS’ Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service tools like Amazon EC2 X1 instances, Amazon EC2 Container Service, and Amazon Relational Databases to drive extreme flexibility and speed-to-value. Drawing on the expertise and methodologies of the Capgemini Cloud Choice with Amazon Web Services offering portfolio, the presentation will help you sidestep any potential single-vendor woes and will show you how to architect a smart solution with maximum value that will benefit your organization for years to come. Presented by Joe Coyle, Global CTO, Cloud Services, Capgemini, at AWS Reinvent 2016.

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2016
Happy Together
Embracing Cloud Lock-in!
Joe Coyle
Capgemini

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But is this a serious issue? Let’s explore.
Lock-in?
DEFINITION
Lock-in
[lok-in]
1. Lock-in is a situation in which a customer using a product or service cannot
easily transition to a competitor’s product or service. Lock-in is usually the result
of proprietary technologies that are incompatible with those of competitors.

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Common thought processes around cloud lock-in
Standards are still being formed,
and cloud computing is still too
immature to reach the point where
customers are demanding
vendor independence.
Going with a cloud solution
means buying into the specific
protocols, standards, and
tools of the cloud vendor,
making future migration costly
and difficult.
Cloud is erasing the
gains we’ve made in
terms of vendor
dependence lock-in.
When enterprises
calculate the cost of leveraging
cloud computing services, they don’t
factor in the costs of migrating off
the system – expenses which could
be prohibitive and unexpected.

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Lock-in? A quick historical journey
The First Commercial Systems? Open?
Various Open Network Solutions?
Open Data Storage & Retrieval?
Operating Systems – Open?
Open Common Computing Language?
So, has there ever been an option not to have Lock-in?

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Lock-in? Not if you understand where the business value is and
focus on protecting it.
Cloud tools such as IaaS, PaaS, should be looked at as powerful value-
add enablers! No one delivers more powerful enabling tools than AWS.
The two crown jewels of an enterprise are its data and it code base (apps,
logic, etc.) that drive its business and differentiates from its competitors.
So why do I say “Happy Together – Embracing cloud lock-in?”

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Data is data, and an enterprise asset with extreme value. It can be, and
always has been, able to be migrated from tool to tool, platform to
platform.
Your application logic is the other jewel. If well written, code will be
portable. Use APIs to call the powerful AWS platform tools.
Embrace it how? Focus on your crown jewels

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In Summary
 Lock-in has been around since the “computing platform” became
generally available
– Abstract your data and logic, lock-in then dissipates
 There has never been a company before AWS that delivers such a
wealth of tools and platforms that enterprises can leverage
– Leveraging the AWS ecosystem will deliver value way beyond
the lock-in fear
 Remember history! There has never been true “unlock”
– Own your data and logic, and embrace the power of the AWS
ecosystem of IaaS and PaaS

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