Power no longer lives in racks. It lives in contracts, keys, and control planes. Colonial Cloud is the India-first playbook to break cloud lock-in and keep your options open. With field-tested checklists, RFP clauses, and a 30-60-90 de-risking plan, Jaspreet shows how to design clean exits, hold your own keys, and keep Indian law at the center of mission-critical systems. Real stories, from sanctions-triggered software cutoffs to console surprises. Meet practical runbooks you can use Monday morning. If you’re a CIO, founder, policymaker, or engineer, this book helps you ship faster without surrendering architect for sovereignty, rehearse the exit, and never let one vendor or outage switch off your future. Don’t just rent the future, hold the keys.