From Migration Mayhem to Multi-Cloud Control: Introducing FluidCloud
By Sharad Kumar, CEO & Co-Founder, FluidCloud
This isn’t a problem we studied from the outside. We lived it.
My co-founders and I each felt cloud lock-in pain directly in our prior companies — our CTO Harshit Omar and I at our cloud security startup, and our CPO James Bayer as part of an M&A where different clouds were being used. Each of us saw firsthand just how hard it is to move infrastructure from one cloud to the next.
On paper, cloud migration was a problem each of us was better positioned than almost anyone to handle. We had built and managed cloud-native systems from the ground up– and moving work environments from one to the next was supposed to be, if not simple, then at least routine.
It was neither.
We found that cloud migration left us staring into the same complexity, friction, and frustration that so many others experience—but rarely talk about. Even with highly technical teams at our disposal years of experience behind us, migration was a herculean task.
And we quickly realized:
The tools and talent we had weren’t built for this.
The Gaps We Found
1. People only know their own cloud.
Even the best infrastructure engineers were deeply specialized in one environment. Sometimes two. But cloud platforms are all different by design, with wildly different architectures, naming conventions, and services. Cross-cloud experience was rare. And true multi-cloud confidence? Even rarer.
2. Automation tools weren’t built to solve this.
We had access to great cost-optimization platforms and observability tools. They could tell us what was wrong. But none could tell us how to re-architect a new cloud. They were mirrors, not guides.
3. AI wasn’t ready.
We tried it. The top LLMs hallucinated. They were good at generating policy documents and answering theoretical questions, but cloud infrastructure isn’t a language problem—it’s a systems problem. The AI didn’t just fail to help. It slowed us down.
We Had to Build Our Own Way Out
So we did. We built the tooling, playbooks, and processes we needed to move faster, safer, and smarter—across cloud providers. We succeeded in our own migration, and that experience changed us.
Because once you go through that kind of pain, you don’t forget it. You start to ask: why does this have to be so hard? And more importantly: what would it take to make it easy?
That’s why we started FluidCloud. Not to build another dashboard or compliance tool. But to rethink cloud mobility from the ground up—to make it as easy to move, clone, restore, or replatform your infrastructure as it is to deploy a new workload.
In short: to give you real control over your cloud destiny and the freedom to go where you want to go.
Why This Matters Now: Multi-Cloud Isn’t a Trend. It’s the New Reality.
More and more companies aren’t choosing a cloud—they’re choosing clouds.
According to Gartner, 81% of enterprises already operate across multiple cloud providers, and that number is expected to hit 90% by 2027. The reasons are clear—and growing by the day:
Redundancy for uptime and business continuity
A healthy skepticism of putting all your infrastructure eggs in one vendor’s basket
Often a best-in-class service is only offered on a different cloud. Organizations want to use the best options available.
Managing region-specific deployments to meet regulatory frameworks like GDPR, APPI (Japan), and LGPD (Brazil)
Increasing reliance on hybrid architectures, especially as organizations look to tap into on-prem data for AI workloads.
But this shift isn’t just about spreading workloads across providers. It’s about moving between them—on demand, without disruption.
Whether it’s optimizing for cost, responding to an outage, mitigating risks from weather, cyberattacks, or geopolitical events—organizations need to shuttle operations across clouds with agility and confidence.
Because the cloud is no longer just where innovation happens. It’s where resilience happens.
And yet, that level of fluidity still feels out of reach for most teams today. The reason? A lack of standardization. Every cloud speaks its own language. Every configuration is bespoke. And most infrastructure is still tightly coupled to a single provider’s architecture. Unfortunately – but perhaps not surprisingly – also finds that by 2029, over 50% of multi-cloud orgs will fail to get the implementation results they wanted.
FluidCloud was built to break that cycle.
Welcome to FluidCloud
At FluidCloud, our mission is to free enterprises from vendor lock-in with intelligent, portable infrastructure across all platforms. Whether you're going multi-cloud by design or migrating from one platform to another, you should be able to move fast, innovate, insure resiliency and never fear vendor lock-in again.
FluidCloud is the first platform leveraging Cloud CloningTM technology, designed to give teams true cloud mobility.
We reverse-engineer your environment into a portable infrastructure definition, enabling seamless cloning, migration, and remapping across accounts, regions, and providers. What used to take months of planning, scripting, and manual effort? Now happens in minutes—with a fraction of the cost and team resources.
We take near-real-time snapshots of your entire cloud infrastructure—networking, compute, storage, IAM, databases, metadata—and convert it into a universal, cloud-agnostic format that can be re-deployed anywhere.
Here’s what that means in practice:
Lightning-Fast Portability
Our built-in infrastructure mapping engine makes it possible to move workloads effortlessly across clouds. Whether you’re shifting between accounts, expanding into new regions, or adopting a new provider entirely—FluidCloud gets you there, fast.Resiliency by Default
Outages happen. With FluidCloud, spinning up a replica environment takes minutes. Whether you need a hot backup or a cold standby, you’re never stuck waiting for recovery.Unified Governance, Powered by AI
Our purpose-built AI doesn’t just monitor—it understands. FluidCloud gives you a real-time, cross-cloud view of configuration drift, compliance, performance, cost efficiency, and adherence to best practices—so you’re always in control, even as things change.
This isn’t off-the-shelf AI duct-taped to a dashboard. With nine granted patents and five more pending, we’ve built a custom system that’s purpose-designed for this challenge.
And it’s already working. In early deployments, including with our partner Vultr, we’ve seen migration timelines cut by 90%—with huge reductions in required headcount and effort. On the cloud customer side, VMware customers have turned to us directly for help improving their options in light of recent VMware price hikes and policy changes.
Those are powerful results. But what excites us most is what this unlocks for the future: a world where cloud infrastructure is no longer a constraint—but a canvas where you have the freedom to
innovate.
And, we’re just getting started. Ready to free yourself from vendor-lock in and discover a whole new level of innovation freedom? Schedule a demo today
From Migration Mayhem to Multi-Cloud Control: Introducing FluidCloud
By Sharad Kumar, CEO & Co-Founder, FluidCloud
This isn’t a problem we studied from the outside. We lived it.
My co-founders and I each felt cloud lock-in pain directly in our prior companies — our CTO Harshit Omar and I at our cloud security startup, and our CPO James Bayer as part of an M&A where different clouds were being used. Each of us saw firsthand just how hard it is to move infrastructure from one cloud to the next.
On paper, cloud migration was a problem each of us was better positioned than almost anyone to handle. We had built and managed cloud-native systems from the ground up– and moving work environments from one to the next was supposed to be, if not simple, then at least routine.
It was neither.
We found that cloud migration left us staring into the same complexity, friction, and frustration that so many others experience—but rarely talk about. Even with highly technical teams at our disposal years of experience behind us, migration was a herculean task.
And we quickly realized:
The tools and talent we had weren’t built for this.
The Gaps We Found
1. People only know their own cloud.
Even the best infrastructure engineers were deeply specialized in one environment. Sometimes two. But cloud platforms are all different by design, with wildly different architectures, naming conventions, and services. Cross-cloud experience was rare. And true multi-cloud confidence? Even rarer.
2. Automation tools weren’t built to solve this.
We had access to great cost-optimization platforms and observability tools. They could tell us what was wrong. But none could tell us how to re-architect a new cloud. They were mirrors, not guides.
3. AI wasn’t ready.
We tried it. The top LLMs hallucinated. They were good at generating policy documents and answering theoretical questions, but cloud infrastructure isn’t a language problem—it’s a systems problem. The AI didn’t just fail to help. It slowed us down.
We Had to Build Our Own Way Out
So we did. We built the tooling, playbooks, and processes we needed to move faster, safer, and smarter—across cloud providers. We succeeded in our own migration, and that experience changed us.
Because once you go through that kind of pain, you don’t forget it. You start to ask: why does this have to be so hard? And more importantly: what would it take to make it easy?
That’s why we started FluidCloud. Not to build another dashboard or compliance tool. But to rethink cloud mobility from the ground up—to make it as easy to move, clone, restore, or replatform your infrastructure as it is to deploy a new workload.
In short: to give you real control over your cloud destiny and the freedom to go where you want to go.
Why This Matters Now: Multi-Cloud Isn’t a Trend. It’s the New Reality.
More and more companies aren’t choosing a cloud—they’re choosing clouds.
According to Gartner, 81% of enterprises already operate across multiple cloud providers, and that number is expected to hit 90% by 2027. The reasons are clear—and growing by the day:
Redundancy for uptime and business continuity
A healthy skepticism of putting all your infrastructure eggs in one vendor’s basket
Often a best-in-class service is only offered on a different cloud. Organizations want to use the best options available.
Managing region-specific deployments to meet regulatory frameworks like GDPR, APPI (Japan), and LGPD (Brazil)
Increasing reliance on hybrid architectures, especially as organizations look to tap into on-prem data for AI workloads.
But this shift isn’t just about spreading workloads across providers. It’s about moving between them—on demand, without disruption.
Whether it’s optimizing for cost, responding to an outage, mitigating risks from weather, cyberattacks, or geopolitical events—organizations need to shuttle operations across clouds with agility and confidence.
Because the cloud is no longer just where innovation happens. It’s where resilience happens.
And yet, that level of fluidity still feels out of reach for most teams today. The reason? A lack of standardization. Every cloud speaks its own language. Every configuration is bespoke. And most infrastructure is still tightly coupled to a single provider’s architecture. Unfortunately – but perhaps not surprisingly – also finds that by 2029, over 50% of multi-cloud orgs will fail to get the implementation results they wanted.
FluidCloud was built to break that cycle.
Welcome to FluidCloud
At FluidCloud, our mission is to free enterprises from vendor lock-in with intelligent, portable infrastructure across all platforms. Whether you're going multi-cloud by design or migrating from one platform to another, you should be able to move fast, innovate, insure resiliency and never fear vendor lock-in again.
FluidCloud is the first platform leveraging Cloud CloningTM technology, designed to give teams true cloud mobility.
We reverse-engineer your environment into a portable infrastructure definition, enabling seamless cloning, migration, and remapping across accounts, regions, and providers. What used to take months of planning, scripting, and manual effort? Now happens in minutes—with a fraction of the cost and team resources.
We take near-real-time snapshots of your entire cloud infrastructure—networking, compute, storage, IAM, databases, metadata—and convert it into a universal, cloud-agnostic format that can be re-deployed anywhere.
Here’s what that means in practice:
Lightning-Fast Portability
Our built-in infrastructure mapping engine makes it possible to move workloads effortlessly across clouds. Whether you’re shifting between accounts, expanding into new regions, or adopting a new provider entirely—FluidCloud gets you there, fast.Resiliency by Default
Outages happen. With FluidCloud, spinning up a replica environment takes minutes. Whether you need a hot backup or a cold standby, you’re never stuck waiting for recovery.Unified Governance, Powered by AI
Our purpose-built AI doesn’t just monitor—it understands. FluidCloud gives you a real-time, cross-cloud view of configuration drift, compliance, performance, cost efficiency, and adherence to best practices—so you’re always in control, even as things change.
This isn’t off-the-shelf AI duct-taped to a dashboard. With nine granted patents and five more pending, we’ve built a custom system that’s purpose-designed for this challenge.
And it’s already working. In early deployments, including with our partner Vultr, we’ve seen migration timelines cut by 90%—with huge reductions in required headcount and effort. On the cloud customer side, VMware customers have turned to us directly for help improving their options in light of recent VMware price hikes and policy changes.
Those are powerful results. But what excites us most is what this unlocks for the future: a world where cloud infrastructure is no longer a constraint—but a canvas where you have the freedom to
innovate.
And, we’re just getting started. Ready to free yourself from vendor-lock in and discover a whole new level of innovation freedom? Schedule a demo today