Respond To This! After reading the blog "Multi-cloud: Myths and Reality", I found it to be interesting while also trying to understand the author's skepticism regarding multicloud. The aspects that I found to be really interesting were the author mentioning his thoughts towards multicloud like how some applications are tied to a specific public cloud and how it would be sort of complex when dealing with the multiple cloud providers after a merger. And not to mention expensive! Since I didn't know much about multicloud to begin with, I had decided to look up some videos to at least get a better understanding on what it does and why organizations might use it. So a multicloud is essentially a cloud environment where you use two or more public clouds for your workload. The public cloud is a set of services and resources that's offered to the public via the internet. By splitting the workload across multiple clouds, it lets you choose the best features of each cloud provider, like AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure (Microsoft). Replicating the same workload on multiple clouds leads to higher availability, so in the case of one of the servers failing because of an outage then having the same applications but on another server would make it accessible. Some challenges to multicloud would be the multiple different environments to manage because each cloud provider has a different API (Application Programming Interface) and services making it complex. There are certifications for each cloud provider, so I think you would need different teams to learn for each, which would result in having too many resources. Second, another challenge is that migration isn't easy because each environment is different since you would also need to consider re-architecting and vendor-lock in. Rearchitecting refers to having to rebuild an application in order to run it on another application. While vendor-lock in means that a company's restrained to a single cloud vendor so if they make the choice to switch to a different cloud provider then it would be more expensive. In the blog, the author also made a sarcastic remark about "deploying application workloads across multiple cloud providers makes as much sense", and made some comparisons like for example, running Ubuntu in one data center and vice versa in the case of Red Hat, which are both Linux distributions (operating systems) for the "same application". Instead, the author provides a suggestion that if you care about availability then consider "deploying parallel application stacks across multiple availability zones or regions of the same cloud provider". So to conclude, after reading this blog I was able to learn about multicloud and also learn that isn't as perfect as some people, companies, or organizations make it out to be