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# Multi-Cloud's Impact on FinOps

Opportunities, Challenges & Advice for Practitioners on a Multi-Cloud Journey

[Idaliz Baez](https://realops.io/blog/author/idaliz-baez)

 Jun 27, 2023

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We know that senior leaders favour a multi-cloud approach, not just to avoid vendor lock-in but also to have the freedom to choose the best technical platform that matches their needs.

[According to the RightScale State of the Cloud Report](https://resources.flexera.com/web/media/documents/rightscale-2019-state-of-the-cloud-report-from-flexera.pdf), you can see the already clear intention to move towards a multi-cloud strategy.

If we fast forward to what we have from the[2022 State of FinOps survey results](https://data.finops.org/#3135), we see an increase in the all-in or born-in Public Cloud approaches. We also note those plus the Public cloud-first/use combine to almost 100% which wasn’t that well represented previously. Lastly, the huge lion's share of these results shows that a cloud-first, but still hybrid strategy moved from 21% to mid 40% demonstrating the rapid growth towards this strategy.

[In this FinOpsX talk,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUKTOUC0eGs&list=PLUSCToibAswmu2V2rbm3ZjTLw3OZ9F2SB&index=21&t=364s) I explore how the increased adoption of multi-cloud strategies creates complexities and opportunities for finance, engineering, and FinOps teams. See the outline of this FinOpsX breakout session below for more details!

- Why do organisations choose a multi-cloud strategy? 
    - Real World Scenarios 
- How to embrace a multi-cloud strategy?
- Multi-cloud shortcomings
- Measures of and examples of implementing a successful multi-cloud strategy throughout the FinOps Lifecycle 
    - Crawl Phase
    - Walk phase
    - Run phase
- FinOps Team Activities
- Advice for FinOps practitioners 
    - Example deliverables from multi-cloud strategies

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