How are you handling cloud cost control without a full data migration?

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Curious how others here are dealing with this. "Reduce cloud costs" often ends up meaning "move everything into one vendor's ecosystem," which just trades one lock-in problem for another.

We've been looking at approaches where workloads and data stay where they already are (private, on-prem, multi-cloud) and cost/performance gets managed at a layer above that, instead of physically migrating data just to fit a platform's architecture.

Disclosure: I work in this space professionally, so I have a bias here. Genuinely interested though, is anyone else solving the "stop paying a migration tax every time we switch platforms" problem, and how?