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If someone else can turn it off, you don't own it. And most organisations haven't fully reckoned with what that means for their AI strategy. Civo Product Director Russ Smith draws a direct line from the Broadcom/VMware licensing shock to the Anthropic model restrictions, two different industries, same structural problem. When a vendor can change the rules overnight, businesses that built their strategy around that vendor are left with uncertainty and no clear next step.

It's the question platform engineers have been asking for years. In this short, Civo's John Dietz gives his honest take, and it's more nuanced than a simple yes or no.

Building an Internal Developer Platform doesn't have to be a months-long project. Join us for a practical walkthrough where we'll spin up a fully functional platform from zero to production-ready in under 30 minutes. We're using Konstruct's Hosted Control Plane to show you exactly how fast modern IDP tooling can be. You'll watch as we deploy a team's first cluster, showcase the essentials that actually matter, and explore how this foundation becomes the backbone of developer productivity at scale.

Proprietary tech. Vendor lock-in. Pricing you can't predict. The hyperscaler model has defined cloud computing for years. Civo was built to change that. Civo CEO Mark Boost sets out the vision, a multi-cloud and hybrid cloud future built on open standards, full cloud parity, and genuine user choice. Public cloud, private cloud, and AI infrastructure that gives you total control over your data, your infrastructure, and your spend.

Cloud first was gospel for a decade. But the calculus has changed, and organisations are asking harder questions about where their workloads actually belong. In this clip, Civo Product Director Russ Smith breaks down the four forces that have converged to shift the default: spiralling bills that are no longer defensible at scale, the Broadcom acquisition that detonated VMware pricing overnight, sovereignty becoming a boardroom procurement requirement, and AI making new hardware brutally expensive.

Highly classified environment. Strict compliance requirements. Data that can't leave the network. But still a real need for the competitive advantage AI delivers. Civo Director of Enterprise Cloud Solutions John Dietz addresses exactly that challenge and how Konstruct makes it possible to run Kubernetes, deploy your own models, and point Claude Code at your own internal private servers instead of public APIs.