[outworlder]

> Secondly on the article's mention on multi cloud usage, you would need to be a pretty large place to need (or even bothering to assess and convince yourself that you need) to use multiple cloud providers at once.

Oh, this is not the case at all. Do business with any retailer? Try telling them your stuff is hosted on AWS and see how that works for you.

[pinkgodzilla]

If this occurred frequently for my business, you would architect your system for on-prem flexibility and capabilities. However, I think for just "data" like S3 blob storage, this is definitely a no brainer. I would imagine for VMs its going to be a lot more difficult with load balancing, permissions and what not.