Multi-Cloud Is a Trap

Re:Multi-Cloud Is a Trap by Spooky23 on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @08:50AM (#18014795)

There are some good arguments about the technical complexity of using multiple clouds. But the author seems to be naive about the power of competition, or more appropriately, the problems associated with having no competitive pressure on vendors. #1 priority of any business should be to have as few sole-source suppliers as possible.

It seems cleaner to go all-in on AWS/Azure/Google/Your Datacenter/something else. But the reality is, if you have a significant spend, and are dependent on one vendor, you are truly fucked. You won't get good terms, you won't get good pricing.

This industry goes through this cycle again and again. 30 years ago, people bet the business on Oracle/Informix/DB2/Sybase. Oracle is the king of that hill, and we all know the stories about how great they are to work with. 10 years ago we started with Office 365 and it's predecessor. Ask a big Office 365 customer how their subscription renewal process went.

Cloud is no different. Unless you can tell your AWS rep to go fuck himself and move workload elsewhere quickly, you are giving up valuable leverage.

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Re:Multi-Cloud Is a Trap by PopeDotNinja on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @09:55AM (#18015298)

Don't forget that it's easy to get killed on bandwidth costs when you suck your data out of one cloud and into another. Also, you have to be big enough to justify the spending money on engineers to make you multi-cloud, as you'll be implementing many features yourself, which takes a bunch of time.

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