- If you acquire a company – they could be using a different cloud – so you are now forced to use multiple clouds.
- Migration from physical DC to cloud could take time, so you end up using multiple clouds
- One cloud vendor could give you an irresistibly sweet deal to start adopting it
- Some clouds are better in certain aspects (ML,BigQuery good in GCP; Bandwidth costs low in AWS etc)
- Avoid vendor lock in so that one vendor cannot raise costs too high
- You build your infra to be one vendor agnostic, so you start using ‘Infra as a code’ tools like Terraform
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- If you acquire a company – they could be using a different cloud – so you are now forced to use multiple clouds.
- Migration from physical DC to cloud could take time, so you end up using multiple clouds
- One cloud vendor could give you an irresistibly sweet deal to start adopting it
- Some clouds are better in certain aspects (ML,BigQuery good in GCP; Bandwidth costs low in AWS etc)
- Avoid vendor lock in so that one vendor cannot raise costs too high
- You build your infra to be one vendor agnostic, so you start using ‘Infra as a code’ tools like Terraform