Over the last decade, the industry accepted a simple truth: If you wanted a Software as a Service (SaaS) product, you consumed it in the cloud that the vendor selected.
Convenience won over flexibility. Vendors built on their preferred hyperscaler, customers followed and that single operational model shaped the boundaries of what was possible.
That era is fading. A different pattern is rising, driven by architectural principles creating freedom, not friction. The separation of the control plane and the data plane is one of the most powerful…
