From AWS EC2 to Cozystack: A Beginner’s Roadmap to Cloud Independence

Kirti Goyal kicks off her cloud-native journey on AWS EC2 but quickly hits the wall of complexity, costs, and lock-in. She dives into Cozystack—an open-source toolkit that lets you spin up your own private cloud—and compares her “AWS-first” mindset with the freedom and flexibility Cozystack delivers.

Along the way, Kirti shares hands-on tips, lessons learned, and why digital sovereignty matters more than ever. As a CNCF contributor focused on Meshery, she champions visual, collaborative infrastructure tools and encourages students and early-career engineers to jump into open source and break free from single-vendor chains.

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