By choosing a multi-cloud strategy, you lose one of the main advantages of cloud adoption of being a “Single Control and Management Plane”. Ensure to include this in your Cloud Adoption Business Case and be fully aware of the trade-offs you’re making
Below some examples:
- Establishing logs ingestion, querying and correlation. This comes natively in all cloud platforms. However, with multi-cloud you need to properly architect this.
- Performing management activities activities such as iOS patching, backups, desired state configuration. Again, they all come natively in all cloud provider and you need to handle this separately with multi-cloud
- Cost Management and Goverance, as you’ll be managing different invoices and cost reporting tools.
- Complexity in deployment pipelines due to deploying to various platforms
- Identity management configuration and setup
- Shared services setup complexity both on the cloud side and on-premise side such as: Firewalls, Gateways, Hubs…etc
- Disaster recovery setup
- Identity management and federation
And the list goes on……
Ala' Yasin Abuhijleh 