How it works?

exitcloud.io provides a structured, end-to-end workflow for assessing cloud exit readiness without requiring intrusive access to your cloud environments.

The platform is designed to make cloud exit risks visible, measurable, and repeatable.

High-level workflow

At a high level, exitcloud.io works as follows:

1. You create an assessment on the platform
2. You define scope, exit strategy, and assessment type
3. You provide read-only cloud credentials
4. The assessment engine performs the analysis
5. Results are stored, visualized, and reported in the platform

The same workflow applies to both one-time and continuous assessments.

Assessment creation

Assessments are created directly in the exitcloud.io platform.

When creating an assessment, you define:

• assessment name and optional description
• target cloud provider
• exit strategy
• assessment type (Basic or Standard)
• execution mode (one-time or continuous)

This ensures that each assessment is clearly scoped and repeatable.

Secure credential handling

To perform an assessment, exitcloud.io requires read-only access to the selected cloud provider.

Credentials:

• are used only during assessment execution
• are not stored in the platform database
• are handled via an isolated secrets manager
• are protected with strict access controls and auditing

exitcloud.io never modifies cloud resources and never performs write operations.

Assessment execution

Once an assessment is submitted:

• the assessment engine takes over execution automatically
• data is collected based on the selected scope and exit strategy
• progress and status are visible in the platform

For continuous assessments, execution is repeated automatically based on the selected schedule (daily, weekly, or monthly).

Reports and insights

After execution, results become available in the platform.

Depending on the assessment type, exitcloud.io generates:

• resource inventory and dependency insights
• cost overviews and trends
• identified exit risks and constraints
• alternative technology mappings
• exit readiness and vendor lock-in scores (Standard assessments)

Results can be viewed online and, where applicable, downloaded as PDF reports.

Designed for ongoing visibility

exitcloud.io is designed not only for one-time analysis, but also for ongoing exit readiness tracking.

Continuous assessments allow you to:

• monitor changes over time
• track risk evolution
• measure improvement or regression in readiness
• maintain an up-to-date view of exit feasibility

This turns cloud exit readiness from a one-off exercise into a managed capability.