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Oops, We’re Multi-Cloud: A Hitchhiker's Guide to Surviving

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It felt counterintuitive but during the last two years I actually came across several valid and compelling reasons to adopt multicloud: Companies may opt for a multicloud approach to avoid the risk of cloud vendor lock-in. If your cloud-based applications are dependent on proprietary capabilities specific to the offerings of your cloud platform (Amazon Kinesis for example), this can leave you in a state of cloud vendor lock-in. This means you are beholden to the changes to the product offerings and the price increases without recourse.

Risk minimization and compliance regulations and requirements are common to mission-critical enterprises like public infrastructure, healthcare, and banking.

As alluded to with cloud sprawl, one of the biggest challenges you’re likely to face with a multicloud environment is security.