Over the past several years, I've been involved with decisions in many organizations regarding cloud adoption. One of the key early decisions in the process is whether or not to go with a single cloud provider or to become a multi-cloud company. At AMPORTS, we have decided to go the multi-cloud route for several reasons, including:
- Avoiding Single Partner Lock-In: One of the key benefits of multi-cloud is the ability to avoid vendor lock-in. By distributing workloads across multiple cloud providers, organizations can prevent dependence on a single vendor's infrastructure, services, and pricing models. This strategy provides flexibility and leverage during negotiations, as well as the ability to switch providers or allocate workloads based on specific requirements, performance, or cost considerations.
- Increased Resilience and Disaster Recovery: Multi-cloud deployments offer improved resilience and disaster recovery capabilities. By spreading workloads across multiple cloud platforms, organizations can minimize the risk of downtime and data loss in the event of a service outage or failure in one cloud provider. By leveraging the strengths of different CSPs and their respective data centers, organizations can design architectures that enhance redundancy, failover mechanisms, and data replication across multiple geographical locations.
- Best-of-Breed Solutions and Innovation: This was the primary reason in our decision process. Multi-cloud allows organizations like us to select the best-of-breed services and technologies from different cloud providers based on their unique strengths and capabilities. Different CSPs specialize in various areas, such as containerization, ai / machine learning, big data analytics, video technology, or serverless computing. By utilizing multiple clouds, organizations can leverage these specialized services to optimize their applications and take advantage of the latest innovations in the cloud computing landscape. This approach promotes flexibility, encourages experimentation, and fosters innovation within the organization.
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11 个月Great read Jeff, this is a decision I recently contemplated with a cloud migration project I worked on.?Are there any downsides to managing two differing cloud platforms? I would imagine there would be difficulties finding suitably experienced support staff, an increase of the overall complexity of your environment and managing two cloud suppliers rather than one.?Are you able to leverage competition between the two suppliers for additional services?