Vendor lock-in does not come from using GKE/EKS/AKS or derivatives. What ends up happening is that your application consumes services (storage, analytics, etc.

Vendor lock-in does not come from using GKE/EKS/AKS or derivatives. What ends up happening is that your application consumes services (storage, analytics, etc.). You start using those services from the cloud provider, which makes sense as long as it is the right thing for your business (aligns w/ your cloud-native blueprint). Kubernetes, by itself, is cloud-provider agnostic.