In Production · Field Note 8 of 9

Platform vs Hyperscaler Native Tools

The provider ships a managed service that covers most of your platform. Build, adopt, and decommission your own code. Written for NZ platform teams.

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Steve Rackham
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Recap. Knowledge transfer is underway — painfully. Then product management asks the question tenants have been asking for six months: why not the native managed service?



Outline

  • Hook: Tenant demo of the provider’s new offering vs. your vending pipeline
  • Context: Honest value-add — guardrails, opinion, tenant experience, or inertia?
  • Decision: Retire part of your own platform deliberately
  • NZ field note: Decommissioning your own code — sequel to series two’s Petone exit

Sections to Draft

  • Build / adopt / wrap decision framework
  • Tenant communication when you retire a capability
  • Migration plan for platform-owned services
  • Steal-this checklist

Next in the Series

Part 9 — “The Three-Year Review.” What the platform cost vs. the business case, what the team would do differently, and the handoff question.

One Block

Pick one platform capability a tenant could buy natively tomorrow — and write one paragraph on why you still own it, or a date when you will not.