# getoutofyour.cloud

> Evidence-led campaign on public-cloud dependence. Every claim links to a primary source (provider postmortems, regulator guidance) and states its boundary: what was affected, and what the evidence does not show. It does not claim on-prem is right for every workload.

Full text of every guide and dossier: https://getoutofyour.cloud/llms-full.txt

## Guides and tools

- [Cloud exit checklist](https://getoutofyour.cloud/cloud-exit-checklist/): 14-control readiness test: could you leave your cloud in 90 days?
- [Cloud outages](https://getoutofyour.cloud/cloud-outages/): Index of primary-source incident dossiers
- [Cloud vendor lock-in](https://getoutofyour.cloud/cloud-vendor-lock-in/): Real cases and how to test an exit
- [Digital sovereignty](https://getoutofyour.cloud/digital-sovereignty-europe/): A region states workload location, not ultimate control
- [Cloud repatriation](https://getoutofyour.cloud/cloud-repatriation/): When moving workloads back to owned hardware makes sense
- [Cloud vs on-prem](https://getoutofyour.cloud/cloud-vs-on-prem/): What an honest cost comparison includes

## Incident dossiers

- [Your spare zone needs room for your failure](https://getoutofyour.cloud/cloud-outages/google-cloud-london-october-2026/): Google Cloud, 2026-10-20. Scope: europe-west2-b power loss; secondary impact across the London region. Primary source: https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/Xs2XTHzAVC9YnafnPyzj
- [A cloud told 495 customers: restore from your own backups](https://getoutofyour.cloud/cloud-outages/idcf-cloud-ransomware-october-2026/): IDC Frontier (IDCF Cloud), 2026-10-07. Scope: Four zones of East Japan Region 1; 495 companies and local governments. Primary source: https://www.idcf.jp/news/topics/20261008001
- [Two gateways. One shared way to fail.](https://getoutofyour.cloud/cloud-outages/azure-expressroute-september-2026/): Microsoft Azure, 2026-09-30. Scope: Multiple regions; networking management failures and some ExpressRoute connectivity loss. Primary source: https://azure.status.microsoft/status/history/?trackingId=7Q30-010
- [One failed AI request became 48 more](https://getoutofyour.cloud/cloud-outages/azure-openai-retry-storm-may-2026/): Microsoft Azure, 2026-05-29. Scope: Azure OpenAI; multiple regions; 7 hours 26 minutes. Primary source: https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status/history/?trackingId=LYXT-C1Z
- [One suspended account cut off three clouds](https://getoutofyour.cloud/cloud-outages/railway-gcp-account-suspension-may-2026/): Google Cloud / Railway, 2026-05-19. Scope: All Railway regions and providers; roughly 8 hours to monitoring. Primary source: https://blog.railway.com/p/incident-report-may-19-2026-gcp-account-outage
- [Multi-AZ did not survive the region](https://getoutofyour.cloud/cloud-outages/aws-middle-east-region-loss-2026/): AWS, 2026-03-01. Scope: me-south-1 (Bahrain) and me-central-1 (UAE); March–September 2026. Primary source: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status?eventID=arn%3Aaws%3Ahealth%3Ame-south-1%3A%3Aevent%2FMULTIPLE_SERVICES%2FAWS_MULTIPLE_SERVICES_OPERATIONAL_ISSUE%2FAWS_MULTIPLE_SERVICES_OPERATIONAL_ISSUE_E6426_01AD72B4E1E
- [Cloudflare went down, too](https://getoutofyour.cloud/cloud-outages/cloudflare-outages-2025-2026/): Cloudflare, 2026-02-20. Scope: Four incidents; product-specific, regional and broad network impact. Primary source: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-outage-february-20-2026/
- [Azure’s global front door closed](https://getoutofyour.cloud/cloud-outages/azure-front-door-october-2025/): Microsoft Azure, 2025-10-29. Scope: Multiple regions; 8 hours 24 minutes. Primary source: https://azure.status.microsoft/status/history/?trackingId=YKYN-BWZ
- [One empty DNS record reached across AWS](https://getoutofyour.cloud/cloud-outages/aws-us-east-1-october-2025/): AWS, 2025-10-19. Scope: US-EAST-1; different impacts across roughly 15 hours. Primary source: https://aws.amazon.com/message/101925/

## Related

- [OnPremEasy](https://onpremeasy.com/): the authors' tooling for running your own infrastructure; its calculator (https://calc.onpremeasy.com) prices self-hosted products across providers