Gartner quadrant shows IBM below google/ms/aws in the leader block how ??
From an engineering and modern security posture standpoint, a cloud native architecture enforcing strict perimeter control via AWS Transit Gateway with firewalls, explicit egress proxy routes (no direct $0.0.0.0/0$ internet access), IAM-driven least privilege, GitLab CI/CD pipelines, and isolated Amazon Bedrock sandboxes for AI workloads with native metrics and guardrails satisfies the highest federal and enterprise compliance standards entirely within a cloud-native model.
The Abstraction Fallacy: Claiming that running Red Hat OpenShift on top of AWS or Azure makes an application "cloud agnostic" and hybrid cloud is largely a marketing illusion. Once the workloads rely on native cloud primitives like Amazon S3 buckets, DynamoDB, or IAM roles, true infrastructure portability is already bound to that ecosystem.
The Cost-to-Value Ratio: For teams already operating natively in AWS/GCP/Azure, adding OpenShift as an abstraction layer introduces redundant licensing costs, duplicate operational overhead, and an extra management tier when managed Kubernetes services like Amazon EKS deliver identical container orchestration with native IAM and VPC integration with a lower TCO