The move to the Cloud is a key step to unlock agility and getting ahead of competition. However, it brings new dangers and some crucial challenges that must be addressed to avoid risks to future business continuity. One of the crucial strategic decisions that cannot be overlooked in reducing this risk is ensuring Cloud Portability. Specifically, given how sticky databases and the data they hold tend to be, it is imperative to strategically choose database technologies for cloud hosted applications that avoid locking in to just one cloud provider. At some point every organisation will inevitably need to have the ability to move cloud provider to respond to competitive or regulatory pressures, to maintain business continuous. If the original database technology chosen was specific to a cloud provider, any migration will likely takes many months or even a year, putting business continuity at risk.