The control illusion: Why 89% of businesses can’t exit their biggest cloud provider within a month
Ask a C-suite executive whether their company controls its data, and the answer is likely to be a confident yes. Ask how quickly they could move their most critical workloads away from their biggest infrastructure provider, and the confidence evaporates.
That disconnect sits at the heart of the Leaseweb Digital Independence Survey 2026, which polled 800 C-suite leaders across the UK, US, Germany and the Netherlands. Some 76% of respondents said they hold complete or high control over their ability to move data to another provider or environment. Yet only 11% said they could migrate business-critical workloads away from their largest cloud or infrastructure provider within three weeks. For the remaining 89%, the exit door is a lot narrower than the floor plan suggests.
More striking still, 55% said such a move would take longer than three months or is not currently possible at all.
Portability on paper, lock-in in...
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