Open Letter to the Business Customers of Microsoft Azure
(and everyone who woke up one day fully surrounded by licenses)
Dear Business Customers of Microsoft Azure,
Somewhere along the way, your cloud stopped being a destination and became an extension of everything you already owned.
Servers. Identity. Licensing. Desktops. Security. DevOps.
All deeply intertwined. All deeply contractual.
On paper, it’s efficient.
In practice, it can feel… heavy.
Because once you’re in, you’re in.
Licensing dependencies quietly start shaping infrastructure itself.
Renewals influence architecture.
And optional services quietly become mandatory.
So here’s a question worth asking:
If the cloud promised flexibility—why does it sometimes feel like gravity?
CloudKey Platform was built for teams who want their infrastructure to move at the speed of strategy—not contract cycles.
With the CloudKey Builder, you design and deploy your own VMware-powered virtual data center in minutes, with full cost visibility, predictable monthly pricing, and no long-term lock-in. You choose the architecture. You choose the scale. You keep the leverage.
And when your workloads move, replicate, or expand—your costs don’t suddenly rewrite themselves.
We’re not here to untangle every enterprise dependency.
When you’re ready to escape licensing gravity and rebuild on your own terms, CloudKey Platform was built for exactly that moment.
Warm regards,
The CloudKey Team
Build your perfect cloud at cloudkey.io
