[murrayb]

I understand the cost and complexity of doing so but I think that production loads should be engineered across two or more service providers. That way any incident on a given provider is recoverable without that providers cooperation and you can mitigate against Oracle style lock-in.

[carschno]

I somewhat agree in principle. At the same time, the (implied) promise of the big providers like AWS and GCP is to provide everything needed for a reliable service while saving the time for setting it all up yourself. If you need multiple platform providers with fallback logic etc., it is hard to see a scenario in which setting up your own infrastructure would not be more effective.

Perhaps the latter is the more practical solution indeed, though.

[snotrockets]

If you think that production loads should be designed as multi-cloud as redundancy, then you don't understand the cost of complexity and doing it.