Over the past decade, the public cloud has reshaped how organizations deploy and scale their IT infrastructure. But as many have discovered, the “cloud revolution” also came with its own traps: vendor lock-in, unpredictable costs, complex multi-cloud management, and growing performance bottlenecks between distributed systems.

Sky Computing is changing that narrative — and companies across industries are already proving what happens when you take control back.

The Cloud Trap: Convenience at a Cost

Cloud providers have mastered convenience. With a few clicks, you can deploy an entire stack of compute, storage, and data services. But as organizations matured, they realized they were building critical infrastructure inside someone else’s boundaries.

Each provider’s ecosystem comes with unique APIs, billing models, and integration quirks. Moving workloads between them becomes a costly migration project, not a configuration change. What started as agility often turns into dependence — and that’s the essence of the cloud trap.

For example, one European manufacturer discovered that running analytics workloads across AWS and Azure doubled their storage costs due to redundant data pipelines. A logistics firm struggled to unify telemetry from its distributed plants because every region ran on a different provider. In both cases, complexity increased faster than value.