# Cloud Exit

> Cloud exit is a capability, not an event. Measure it with open tests, public evidence, reproducible economics, and reversible drills.

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LLMS index: [llms.txt](/llms.txt)

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Section pages:

- [Cloud Exit Standard](/standard/): Five falsifiable tests for whether a service preserves a customer's practical ability to leave.
- [Cloud Cost Ledger](/ledger/): A source-backed ledger of compute, block storage, object storage, egress, commitments, break-even points, and long-run bill composition.
- [Evidence Archive](/evidence/): A dated, source-ranked record of outages, lock-in mechanisms, and public claims.
- [Cloud Exit Cases](/cases/): Comparable accounts of successful, partial, abandoned, and reversed cloud exits.
- [Cloud Exit Playbook](/playbook/): Reversible, staged practices for measuring and improving exit capability without beginning with a migration.