[jacques_chester]

> For the market, I'm hoping we see someone develop a set of common APIs that abstract away common specifics across AWS/Google Cloud/Azure and let you run a generic web stack and dynamically move parts of your app around based on pricing.

At an IAAS level, you can use BOSH to manage stateful systems AWS, OpenStack, vSphere, Azure and GCE. The last two are basically new contributions by Microsoft and Google.

Which matters because once you have BOSH, you've done a lot of the heavy lifting required to install Cloud Foundry.

We are not at the point where there is seamless multi-provider support. But it's a foreseeable capability. We see a lot of capabilities, because of the flexibility of the underlying components of Cloud Foundry -- particularly BOSH ( low-level system deployment and liveness), Diego (container placement, replacement and observation) and Garden (container runtime).

My usual disclaimer: I work for Pivotal, which donates the majority of engineering effort to Cloud Foundry. I should doubly add that saying "it could plausibly do thing X" doesn't mean I'm able to commit us to it.