Cloud computing has been a driver of cost savings over on-prem IT infrastructure and has become a leading source of IT spending. However, lately, this theory is being challenged due to ballooning cloud costs. In this article, Sandeep Shilawat, a renowned tech innovator, thought leader and strategic advisor in U.S. federal markets, examines the economic impact of the marginal cost of multi-cloud computing, explores how marginal costs can be reduced to near zero and analyzes how the complexity of multi-cloud environments is affected.