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Why would they go multi-cloud? ( I'm asking because even very large infrastructure don't use 2 providers ) From a management / ops perspective it's a nightmare
by Thaxll 10y ago
Why would they go multi-cloud? ( I'm asking because even very large infrastructure don't use 2 providers )
From a management / ops perspective it's a nightmare to manage and imo adds more problems than it solves.
- benjarrell 10y agoI think redundancy would be the main reason. They also can use that to leverage for better pricing as well.
- dgemm 10y agoI think it's more likely the second reason.
- Strom 10y agoCould be different micro-services. I'm not at Snap's size, but it's common for me to use Google App Engine (which Snap uses) and then also dedicated bare metal servers for fast data processing. What's more, Snapchat predates Google Compute Engine, so it may just be a case that they have some micro-services designed to run on AWS and haven't bothered to move it elsewhere.