Reliability Challenges in Multi-Cloud Environments: Why Two Clouds Are Often Harder Than One
The pitch for multi-cloud always sounds clean. Avoid vendor lock-in. Optimize costs by running workloads on whichever provider is cheapest for a given task. Improve resilience by distributing across independent failure domains. On paper, it's a compelling case. In practice, the teams living with multi-cloud deployments often describe something closer to the opposite: doubled operational complexity, halved observability, and a category of reliability problems that only exist because there are two
