Multi-Cloud Strategy & Trade-offs

Summary

Using more than one cloud provider — for redundancy, avoiding lock-in, or best-of-breed services — a real strategy with real added operational and cost complexity, not a default best practice.

• 1List 2 legitimate reasons a company might choose multi-cloud despite the added complexity.
• 2Learn why 'avoiding vendor lock-in' is a commonly cited but often overstated multi-cloud justification.
• 3Understand multi-cloud usually means higher operational overhead, not automatically higher resilience.