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I don't know if this will penetrate upward to the CTO level, but 'rclone'[1] is an open source, standards based solution to cloud-to-cloud migration.

You can use rclone - and all its powers - without installing or running it locally:

  ssh user@rsync.net rclone s3:/some/bucket gdrive:/blah

... as there is a cloud storage provider with rclone built into the platform.[2]

[1] https://rclone.org/

[2] https://www.rsync.net/products/universal.html

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Yeah, that migrates data files from A to B. And that has tremendous value, as your command line shows!

But, it does nothing for making, e.g., the message bus service that AWS offers compatible with the one Azure offers, though, so your application will surely know something's up when it doesn't work any more.

I would hope a chief technical officer with their salt would realize how powerful this setup is. Unfortunately, the lack of a cute name, branding, and marketing engine behind it may cause some to dismiss it as 'it's too simple, it must be missing something.'

At a certain scale anything purporting to be as simple as a one-liner CLI program is suspect.

Larger organizations get messy, it's (almost) never as simple as "clone from S3 bucket X to drive folder Y".

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