[cebert]

I personally think multi-cloud is over hyped and the complexity isn’t worth it for most organizations. The apps I am responsible for are one AWS region / 3 AZ and we have sufficient uptime. We could be multi-region but the added cost wasn’t worth the benefit and complexity. Multi-cloud makes zero sense.

[ElevenLathe]

Multicloud makes sense once you get to megascale where you have a dedicated team negotiating with CSPs over your discounts. If you can credibly flip a switch and move your multi-million dollar workload to a competitor, you can save big money.

This comes on top of the benefit that architecting for multi-cloud at that scale usually forces you to simplify/rationalize/automate ruthlessly and so is probably beneficial for a "mature" org with lots of cruft anyway.

That said there may only be a few dozen companies in the world where this makes sense. I happen to work for one, but most engineers don't. Even then, this is at the extreme right of the maturity curve, meaning that there is lots of lower-hanging fruit to pick first

[datavirtue]

Multicloud is just an inevitable reality--the default. The only time I have run into homogenous cloud architectures has been in large organizations and even then I was removed from the multi-cloud concerns because I was focused on a single product/service that was hosted in a single cloud infrastructure.