On the flip side, it also put customers at the mercy of said vendor — and it wasn’t always pretty.

This is something that comes up frequently in discussions about moving workloads from one cloud to another, and is sometimes referred to as a multi-cloud approach.

Customers are loath to leave their workloads in the hands of one vendor again and repeat the mistakes of the past.

It turns out that there is a complex interlinking of public cloud APIs that help the applications and data work in tandem.

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