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Ask HN: Why not #MultiCloud?

1 pointsby magacloudover 7 years ago
Key factors that are holding you from adopting #MultiCloud?<p>Some example factors: 1) Unnecessary or I don&#x27;t mind Vendor-Lockin 2) Security Concerns 3) No single pane of glass &#x2F; DevOps Overheads 4) Management Decision 5) No source of truth about Multi-Cloud pricing and features 6) Free Cloud Credits on one-provider 7) Others

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twobyfourover 7 years ago
Even if we were concerned about our current vendor lock-in or displeased with our current vendor, maintaining our site on a single cloud already eats up more devops overhead than our team of three and a half server-side engineers can really afford. And doubling our monthly hosting costs in the name of redundancy (we do already have some redundancy within our existing cloud) isn&#x27;t a good investment given our business model.<p>Yes, we had downtime when S3 died last year. So did half the Internet. Our customers understood and our business was impacted more by being unable to use Slack for a few hours than by our site going down for that time.<p>And if we became dissatisfied with our vendor, we would just make it a project and switch clouds. It would take a month or two, but so would setting up a multi-cloud setup. And once we switched we would be done. No ongoing additional overhead.<p>And if you think there&#x27;s any sort of API or unifying panel that would eliminate the additional work of maintaining multiple clouds, I&#x27;ve got this really lovely bridge to sell you....<p>If we had a business and team the size of, I don&#x27;t know, Uber, or equivalent availability requirements ... sure, it might be worthwhile. But for a small or medium sized startup, the problems that multi-cloud could solve are the wrong problems to be worrying about.
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abby_cohen_221over 7 years ago
What is MultiCloud? Can you provide a link where people can read more about it?
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