Multiple cloud or multicloud is a system used by organizations where more than one cloud vendor is used. One of the most widely cited benefits is avoiding vendor lock-in. This moves the power of leverage from the vendor to the company. When workloads are designed for multiple providers upfront, developers can create applications that work across multiple providers. This approach in theory makes it much easier to move between cloud providers for the multitude of reasons a company might change course.

Adoption to the cloud at this point is very well established, but IT departments still must ask what, how much and from who? Before going on it’s worth mentioning the difference between multicloud and hybrid cloud. Hybrid is the combination of a private and public cloud infrastructure that uses tools to deploy workloads and manage the balance between the two. Multicloud has a more strategic approach from a business and IT management perspective. Multicloud generally involves cloud-native applications built from containers that span different vendors.