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Re:AWS just went multi-cloud by redkoala on Thursday December 03, 2020 @12:59PM (#25292098)
It depends on the industry. A lot of retail companies are moving away from Amazon to avoid having competitive data flow through AWS infrastructure. Some companies may have different business units across different cloud providers but push for strategic consolidation on a major cloud provider for new implementations.

The heavier the use of cloud native solutions and managed services, the greater the effort to migrate away from those solutions. Not all workloads run on containers, and even then those applications will need some code refactoring if they depend on cloud infrastructure services (cloud specific storage, queue services, monitoring, etc)

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Re:AWS just went multi-cloud by yelling_cat on Thursday December 03, 2020 @04:13PM (#25295041)
Retail companies like Walmart are driving more movement than you'd expect since they aren't only moving their own compute from AWS, they're requiring their own tech partners and vendors to provide them non-AWS-based alternatives as well. I've been on several migration/training projects for companies with large retail customers since they hadn't had time to build the sort of GCP or Azure expertise yet that they had around AWS.
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Re:AWS just went multi-cloud by tuwtuwtuwtuw on Thursday December 03, 2020 @02:25PM (#25293348)
That (first paragraph) sounds like a different issue than lock-in.
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