A new Flexera report reveals 78% of enterprises now use three or more cloud providers, driven by best-of-breed selection, vendor lock-in avoidance, and regulatory requirements.
Typical Multi-Cloud Stack
- AWS: compute and storage backbone
- Azure: Microsoft 365 integration and enterprise apps
- Google Cloud: AI/ML workloads and BigQuery analytics
- Specialized: Snowflake, Databricks, Cloudflare
The challenge: multi-cloud increases complexity by 3x. Companies spend an average of $10M annually on cloud management tools and dedicated platform engineering teams to maintain visibility across providers.