If it only took 18 months for all that, I'd be very impressed. I was thinking at least a year of inevitable meetings and plannings and maybe 3 years of slow exe

If it only took 18 months for all that, I'd be very impressed. I was thinking at least a year of inevitable meetings and plannings and maybe 3 years of slow execution. And I still might be optimistic there. >And what business value does this theoretical “cloud agnosticism” bring - that never is once you get to scale. The "business value" here is not being beholden to an increasingly hostile "ally" who owns the land these servers operate on. If you aren't worried about that, then there is no point in doing any of this. But if things do escalate to war, there's a very obvious attack vector to cripple your company with. Even if you're only 20% into the migration, that's better than 0%.