Sanjay Narang a leading Cloud expert joins us to explain.   Multicloud - Why does it matter as a consumer? As a CTO of a startup, it impacts me. For a larger enterprise, it most definitely does and is unavoidable.   04:30 - What are challenges faced by my enterprise? - Sanjay It helps in reducing cost. Reducing cost by reducing consumption.   10:40 Gowtham - Negotiating with a cloud vendor is tough because more discount happens with a large deal. Is multi-cloud really necessary?  15:45 - Sanjay - How do we backup/migrate an app from one cloud to another cloud provider? What should be aware of?   17:50 - Venkat - Challenges faced by a startup in using multi-cloud providers.   20:05 Nishanth - As an application provider hosting a custom application impact on multi-cloud what would he be worried about? Time to market is a key factor for a Saas provider.   Have 3 broad scenario -   Power BI for Reports ( Vendor-specific capability )  GitHub / Azure DevOps ( nearly equivalent cloud providers available )  Infrastructure VMs - ( Vendor agnostic capability )   26:48 Deepak - How to prepare for a multi-cloud approach as an architect?   32:48 Sanjay - Setting a constraint that my application needs to be portable can hamper business agility. Why is that not a great idea? By doing  this we lose the ability to leverage innovation happening in the world   43:26 Kumaran: Demonstrates a cloud-specific innovation. If portability is taken too seriously then we will lose out on innovation.   45:55 Sidamma: Challenges of multi-cloud. Share her experience of Aviatrics multi-cloud management   48:40 Deepak - Scattershot approach to architecture to multi-cloud.   49:45 Sanjay - 90+ providers for multi-cloud, so it is hard to choose what will work for you.