Thread by @QuinnyPig

And now I will write a thread of reasons an organization would choose to use @awscloud, @googlecloud, and @Azure all at the same time.

https://twitter.com/DeweyRitten/status/1414966524788477958

"Idle hands do the devil's work" and that goes double for lawyers, so make sure they're kept busy renegotiating expiring contracts constantly.

Selecting "best of breed" technologies from each one in theory but in practice getting it hilariously wrong so you're using the worst of all worlds.

Using all three aligns with the DevOps Engineer's understanding of the company's strategic goals.

Unfortunately that understanding is "fill my résumé with buzzwords."

Your CTO is a saboteur sent by the @CloudNativeFdn.

"For durability" is what it says on the design doc. Save a copy for CYA purposes during the frequent outages caused by exposure to every provider's availability issues.

In its startup days, the company took the "Costco free samples" approach to vendor selection and built everything out of free credits hurled their way.

A high performing team worked well together four years ago, the big three hired folks from it, and your nostalgic engineer dreams of getting the band back together.

The startup founder decided to disrupt the idea of engineers only having $50 of signing authority and gave everyone a corporate credit card with hilariously high limits and no technical supervision.

Sure you *USE* Azure, but you *HIRED* someone who knows AWS, supervised them as if you were wearing a yellow hat, and wound up with the wild west in production.

Your company has decided to sacrifice itself in order to drive a stake through the heart of "Kubernetes means it can run anywhere" once and for all.

The consultancy you hired had some turnover issues during a critical time.

You want to give one of those three an easy out of their platform's shortcomings in the Blamefull Post-mortem

Your executive re-entered the airport post-COVID and overdosed on enterprise software ads + Gartner magic quadrants.

For a less shitposty, more nuanced take see this: lastweekinaws.com/blog/multi-clo…