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Scope and non-targets
What behavior the Cloud Exit Standard tests, and what it deliberately leaves outside the line of fire.
In scope
- Transfer, retrieval, extraction, or deletion charges that shape exit economics.
- Missing or incomplete bulk export paths.
- Proprietary interfaces and semantics on the workload’s critical path.
- Commitments, credits, and contracts that strand economic value.
- Incident transparency, contractual remedies, and corrective accountability.
Outside scope
- Whether cloud, colocation, managed service, or owned hardware is inherently better.
- Provider size, nationality, ownership, or popularity.
- Product features unrelated to portability.
- A claim that every organization should self-host.
Compute vendors, CDNs, network carriers, colocation facilities, managed service providers, and cloud platforms can all be allies when they make portability real. The boundary follows conduct: selling resources is trade; pricing the fact that a customer cannot leave is rent extraction.