Customers no longer want to live inside a walled garden. Requirements and workloads change, more frequently now with AI powering those decisions. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Senior Vice President of Product Management Nathan Thomas laid out how AI, sovereignty demands, and rising customer expectations are forcing hyperscalers into a new paradigm, one where cloud providers must cooperate with competitors or risk losing customers entirely. "The customers are highly empowered to make shifts to different technology," Thomas said. "You absolutely cannot rely on the idea that migration is too difficult or customers will get locked in in some tier." Historically, cloud providers were focused on ...