Avoid Vendor Lock-in: Keep Configurations Portable Across Platforms

Published: 3/5/2025

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Each FaaS platform has its own way of managing environment variables. These configurations are often specific to the provider, and there might be proprietary ways of handling sensitive data, secrets, and configuration.

Providers like AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions, etc., each have their own consoles / templates / CLI resulting in a situation where the environment variables and configurations for serverless functions are tightly coupled to a specific cloud provider or FaaS platform. This creates a scenario where it's difficult, costly, or complex to move your workloads or migrate to a different provider, as the platform-specific mechanisms for managing environment variables might not be portable.

Configry.app can help store environment variables and secrets securely in a portable, cross-cloud-compatible way.