*Perspective Chapter: Cloud Lock-in Parameters – Service Adoption and Migration DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.109601*

huge urge to break free of the existing enterprise vendor relationships for which the lock-in costs are higher than the value provided. Resist lock-in mechanisms in areas such as long-term contractual commitments and pre-paid arrangements distort decision-making, although technical lock-in remains one of the most difficult to avoid. Additionally, many suppliers encase exclusive APIs in distinct services so that future applications might adopt their style. These 'stick services' or 'loss leaders' give IT businesses strong incentives to choose the fastest route to value and incur some lock-in risk. This is a common type of technological debt, especially as new vendors introduce products that are more potent and distinctive in the same market or as better solutions emerge from OSS community. In addition, proprietary APIs invite strategic disruption from cloud providers in order to preserve customer lock-in.


and PaaS (which varies depending on your choice of service). Containerisation is the emerging virtualization technology to support more elastic service frameworks due to its flexibility and small resource footprint.
