Multi-cloud strategy
Prior to using a multi-cloud architecture, we need to ask ourselves, what are we trying to achieve through a multi-cloud strategy? Some of the most common use cases for choosing a multi-cloud strategy are discussed in the following sections.
Freedom to select a cloud provider
Most cloud providers offer us the same fundamental services (such as compute, storage, and database). Having the freedom to select a cloud provider allows us to decide for each workload where we wish to deploy our resources (VMs, containers, database, and so on), in case one of the cloud providers changes its Service Level Agreement (SLA) or pricing model.
Freedom to select your services
This freedom means that if one of the cloud providers offers a certain service that is not available on other cloud providers, such as data analytics for large datasets, or a Function-as-a-Service offering that supports a certain development language that is not supported by other cloud providers...
