Cloud computing APIs pose vendor lock-in risks

Grazed from TechTarget.  Author: David Linthicum.

 Organizations migrating to the cloud likely understand the importance of application programming interfaces. These are typically RESTful web services that provide infrastructure services, such as storage and compute, or application services, such as business analytics.   But as more enterprises depend on these application programming interfaces (APIs), some fear they will become locked into these services.

Business processes and applications become tightly coupled to cloud computing APIs, becoming functionally dependent and, eventually, leading to lock-in.  Many of these fears are well-founded. Building applications around cloud-native services and APIs that are specific to a certain cloud provider or platform is the fundamental mechanism behind cloud lock-in. So why use cloud-native services at all?…