Secure digital freedom
Cloud technologies offer many advantages - but if you're not careful, you'll end up permanently tied to a single provider. This risk has a name: Vendor lock-in. The term describes the technological and contractual dependency on providers that makes it difficult to switch to other services or platforms. This creates a strategic risk for companies - with long-term costs, limited flexibility and possible data loss.
STACKIT deliberately focuses on openness and European values. The platform offers the opportunity to operate digital applications independently - without being tied into a rigid ecosystem. You retain control over your data, your infrastructure and your technological orientation. Read on to find out how STACKIT can help you avoid vendor lock-ins.
Many companies initially make a pragmatic choice: a provider offers simple integration, low entry-level prices or promising functions. But over time, this decision can become a trap. Too strong a focus on individual products and services leads to technological dependencies that can only be resolved later with a great deal of effort and considerable costs, and which harbor major risks.
One example: a provider's proprietary tools do not support open interfaces. Data cannot be easily exported. Systems are not compatible with other platforms. After all, a new application has to adapt to existing structures - not the other way around.
As a result, companies lose their freedom of action. Innovations are slowed down, migrations are blocked. Control over infrastructure and data no longer lies with the customer, but in the hands of the provider.
This risk increases with digitalization. The more processes, services and services are moved to the cloud, the greater the provider lock-in - and the more difficult the transition. STACKIT is therefore deliberately taking a different approach, as you will find out in the next section.
STACKIT is a European cloud platform designed to free companies from technical and legal dependencies. Instead of tying customers to individual services in the long term, STACKIT relies on open standards, interoperable technology and transparent services.
STACKIT therefore not only offers you technology, but also the opportunity to shape your IT strategy yourself in the long term - without the undesirable effects of vendor lock-in. STACKIT also actively promotes collaboration with the open source community. Regular updates and compatibility with industry-standard tools ensure that you can react flexibly to future developments. This ensures that your IT landscape always remains modern and innovative - regardless of the individual provider.
Another advantage of STACKIT is the targeted promotion of open partnerships. Instead of tying customers and partners into closed platforms, STACKIT supports an ecosystem based on exchange, interoperability and freedom of choice. Companies can flexibly integrate external tools or existing data models - without being restricted by license structures.
This openness is particularly valuable for organizations that work together with partners, authorities or customers on digital solutions. They retain control over roles, rights and interfaces at all times. At the same time, innovation is accelerated because new technology can be tested and integrated without structural hurdles.
This creates an environment that not only enables sovereignty in technical terms, but also promotes it in business terms - in an open, trustworthy framework, without any vendor lock-in.
Being digitally independent is not a matter of course - it is the result of clear decisions. If you want to retain control over data, software and infrastructure, you need to take a systematic approach. STACKIT supports you with an architecture that focuses on openness, integration and future-proofing.
Vendor lock-in is not an unavoidable risk - but an effect that you can actively avoid. The choice of the right platform determines whether you remain flexible in the future or become dependent on a single vendor.
STACKIT offers you the necessary technological flexibility, full data control and open interfaces for a confident, long-term cloud strategy. Your programs run in a trustworthy environment - secured by European standards and a clear exit perspective. Avoid digital dependencies. Switch to a provider that doesn't tie you down - but empowers you.
By definition, vendor lock-in refers to technological and economic dependence on a single provider. In the cloud, this applies in particular to tools and services that cannot be transferred to other systems, or only with great effort. This makes switching more difficult - with consequences for costs, flexibility and strategic freedom.
An excessive focus on one provider can lead to higher costs, limited functions, technical standstills or even legal problems in the long term - for example in the case of cross-border data processing. As a result, companies lose their freedom of action in digital management.
STACKIT consistently relies on open standards, open source technologies, modular services and transparent interfaces. Programs can be operated flexibly, developed further or migrated to other platforms - without being tied to proprietary technology or formats.
STACKIT offers Kubernetes, PostgreSQL and MariaDB as open source services. They can all be used across platforms. STACKIT also does not use proprietary technologies for storage, monitoring or network management.
Thanks to open architectures, documented APIs and a focus on interoperability, STACKIT enables a step-by-step migration. Companies can transfer existing applications to the STACKIT cloud or - in the opposite case - export data and systems again. This preserves digital sovereignty.