An Analytical Study of Cloud Computing and Portability with Reference to Serverless Cloud

Abstract

Cloud computing has fundamentally altered the way organisations think about technology infrastructure, data management, and application delivery. Among the many dimensions of this transformation, portability, the capacity of workloads, data, and services to move freely across heterogeneous cloud environments, remains one of the most consequential yet underexplored challenges. This paper undertakes an analytical examination of cloud computing portability, situating that inquiry within the rapidly maturing paradigm of serverless cloud architectures. Drawing on technical analysis and conceptual reasoning, the study investigates the structural impediments that hinder portability in contemporary cloud ecosystems, the specific complications that serverless execution models introduce, and the strategies, both technical and organisational, that practitioners can employ to mitigate lock-in and extend workload mobility. The findings suggest that container-based abstraction layers, declarative Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks, and open-standard function runtimes collectively constitute the most viable path toward meaningful portability in serverless environments.