Re:Multi-Cloud Is a Trap
by randoramax on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @10:20AM
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It's hard to migrate data off of S3: once you drop petabytes in there, moving to another service will cost you a lot of cash.
Re:Multi-Cloud Is a Trap
by manigandham on Saturday September 22, 2018 @09:14PM
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Migrating petabytes will always cost lots of money, no way around it.
I think doing multi-cloud for something "normal" and mundane is probably over-engineering. If you want to avoid vendor lock-in just avoid using the most proprietary features of your cloud vendor, or use them in ways that would not be terribly hard to port later (e.g. it's not hard to swap something else out for S3). Yes your DC or cloud provider will have issues every once in a while, but in the grand scheme of things it won't matter unless your service is one that demands damn near 100% uptime as a strict requirement.
Multi-cloud makes sense when you need near-100% reliability. There are few things where reliability requirements are this stringent. It can also make sense when you need a great deal of geographic diversity or portability.