Designing for portability across two clouds
WHAT IT TESTS: portability versus lock-in judgment. OUTLINE: abstract via containers, Terraform, and open standards; avoid proprietary managed services. RED FLAG: chasing portability for its own sake while ignoring the velocity and cost penalty it imposes.
WHAT IT TESTS: whether you weigh portability against the real cost of avoiding managed services. ANSWER OUTLINE: standardize on Kubernetes and containers, use Terraform or Crossplane for IaC, abstract storage and queues behind interfaces, and pick the lowest common denominator of cloud-agnostic primitives. RED FLAG: treating multi-cloud as a default best practice, ignoring that it doubles operational burden, slows feature velocity, and forfeits the deepest managed services that make a single provider productive.
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