Years ago I worked at a $BIGCORP which already had a major presence in Azure, AWS and private datacenters, and there was chatter with the execs about putting a

Years ago I worked at a $BIGCORP which already had a major presence in Azure, AWS and private datacenters, and there was chatter with the execs about putting a footprint in Oracle. Wouldn't be surprised if that's happening now. Partnering with the non-Amazon cloud providers meant spending several millions in surplus infrastructure costs to hire more engineers to un-fuck the alternate cloud shitshows, but unlocked billions in partner deals (think Microsoft promoting our products running on Azure to Azure customers). And then every 3-5 years when we negotiated new cloud resource SKU discount rates we had leverage on common resources like VMs, storage buckets and SQL databases. "If you can't beat this rate we'll move part of our capacity to the other clouds" kinda thing.