How CIOs should evaluate alternative clouds

Alternative clouds have emerged amid major cloud providers such as AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, and often specialize in niche areas like AI-native computing, and sovereign and edge deployments, while professing to provide cost reductions and best-of-breed performance. “Many organizations are rebalancing away from all-in hyperscaler strategies to avoid lock-in and concentration risk,” says Kyle Campos , CTPO at CloudBolt, a cloud management platform. “At the same time, alternative clou