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In brief
More than one environment is justified by residency, latency, or a system you cannot move yet. It is not justified by a fear of choosing.
Original CloudExchangers explainer. It describes established public practice and labels the desk’s judgment as analysis. It is not a report of a newly announced event.
Name the reason
Hybrid means some workloads stay in a place you operate and some run in a cloud. Multi-cloud means more than one cloud provider. Both add a network, an identity mapping, and a second way for a change to be made. Take them on when a reason survives a meeting: data that must stay in a facility, a latency budget the public region cannot meet, a regulated boundary, or a system that is expensive to move and still earns its keep.
“Avoiding lock-in” is not a reason until you can say which component you intend to move, and what the interface is. An architecture that uses every proprietary service of two clouds is not portable. It is two estates.
