[hn_throwaway_99]

Thanks for the response. While I certainly see the value of being provider agnostic, I just don't see the value of being multi-cloud within the same app or service.

I worked at a company that wrote an internal infrastructure/deploy management tool based on Kubernetes. You could deploy an app either to our colo facility (we were an old business transitioning to the cloud), or you could deploy it to AWS. As a developer I never interacted with the AWS console, this internal tool just hid it all from me. However, while I had the option of deploying to our colo or to the cloud, it was one or the other; the service was only running in one platform in prod.

And after a multi year push to the cloud, the company actually had to stop that huge push because costs were spiralling out of control. Managing all the costs across a huge enterprise of many services (some micro, some not) became a huge challenge. Can't even imagine the additional cost or complexity if some of those services spanned multiple cloud providers.