How a Fortune 500 Company 

Achieved Cloud Vendor Independence, Saving Over $2M 

Solution Architecture

Summary

A Fortune 500 company consolidated multiple Kubernetes approaches, spanning AKS and EKS, onto Red Hat OpenShift. The platform provides consistent developer workflows, stronger security and compliance controls, and a clear path to multi-cloud portability.

The result: lower total cost of ownership, faster release cycles, and simplified operations at scale.

The Challenge: Trapped Between Clouds

As a major Azure and AWS shop, the company struggled with inconsistent operations, security gaps, and skill silos between their AKS and EKS environments. This fragmentation created significant operational overhead and exposed them to the long-term risks of vendor lock-in and uncontrollable price hikes. They needed a unified platform to get the best out of the cloud without being trapped by it.

Why Red Hat OpenShift

• Unified policies and controls: Centralized standards for build, deploy, and operate, so every team follows the same, proven path.

• Enterprise security & compliance: Built-in capabilities that help meet security  frameworks.

• Cloud-agnostic portability: Run the same platform on Azure, AWS, or on-prem, minimizing lock-in and preserving choice.

• Day-2 operations at scale: Streamlined upgrades, observability, backup/restore, and cluster lifecycle management.

• Developer productivity: Standardized pipelines and self-service workflows speed delivery without compromising security.

Solution Overview

• Centrally governed OpenShift with organization-wide policies, standardized pipelines, and GitOps-driven changes.

• Security & compliance foundation including least-privilege access, encryption, policy enforcement, and auditable workflows.

• Data protection & resilience with clear patterns for backup/restore and disaster recovery aligned to application needs.

• Cloud-agnostic design so workloads can run consistently across providers (AWS, Azure, etc.) as strategy evolves.

The Outcomes: Control, Consistency, and Lower TCO

By consolidating onto Red Hat OpenShift, they achieved:

• A lower total cost of ownership with projected savings of over $2M in three years.

• Accelerated and secure workflows across all clouds, leading to faster release cycles.

• Simplified operations and true multi-cloud portability.

• Specific, cloud-vendor independent multi-cloud global disaster recovery.

The result is they now get the best out of the Cloud without being trapped by it.

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