When multi-cloud is right (and when it's resume-driven)
Multi-cloud sounds strategic and is often a self-inflicted wound. We frame the three legitimate reasons to go multi-cloud and the four anti-patterns to refuse, with real client examples.
- · The three legitimate drivers: regulatory, cost-arbitrage, vendor-leverage
- · The four anti-patterns: 'avoid lock-in', 'best-of-breed', 'one-team-one-cloud', mergers
- · Cost reality: cross-cloud egress, control-plane multiplication, ops headcount
- · The 'one primary, one DR' pattern that captures 80% of the value at 20% of the cost