It's demonstrably little more expensive than running more instances on the same provider. I only say -little- because there is a marginal administrative overhead.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Only if you engineered your stack using vendor neutral tools, which is not what each cloud provider encourages you to do.

Then the adminstrative overhead of multi-cloud gets phenomenally painful.

[–] felbane@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is why OpenTofu exists.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yeah, Terraform or it's FOSS fork would be ideal, but many of these infrastructures are setup by devs, using the "immediately in front of them" tools that each cloud presents. Decoupling everything back to neutral is the same nightmare as migrating any stack to any other stack.

[–] felbane@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Definitely. I go through that same nightmare every time I have to onboard some new acquisition whose devops was the startup cfo's nephew.

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