As CIOs seek to achieve economies of scale in the cloud, a risk inherent in many of their strategies is taking on greater importance of late: consolidating on too few if not just a single major cloud vendor.
And while vendor lock-in has long been a key issue in the cloud, especially for organizations that have not established a credible threat of defection, the emerging AI tools market — and its accompanying arms race among the major cloud vendors — could leave CIOs at risk of the opportunity costs of AI lock-in as well.
