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Quoting from the 451 Research White Paper linked below, and in a nutshell:
“Using multiple public cloud providers can make direct savings too. US customers can save half their cloud expenditure by mixing and matching services from multiple providers. If enterprises are willing to make upfront commitments, they can save 65% off list pricing. But total savings depend on how feasible it is to manage these cloud platforms, and there are challenges related to skills and management.
There can be huge value in using multiple public clouds, and the more complex the application, the greater the savings that can be gained on direct expenditure. Shopping around for a cheaper single provider to deliver all requirements will save just 3% to 16% saving. But mixing and matching different services can save a massive 30% in APAC regions. Mixing and matching can halve costs in the US West region.
When multiple commitments come into play, the overall savings can be vast. Anyone can consume reserved instances, sustained-use pricing models and pre-provisioned database capacity – there is no minimum spend required to make an enterprise eligible. As such, an enterprise can make commitments to multiple providers without needing exclusivity. And when this happens, the savings compared to on-demand pricing is substantial – for our small basket, the average savings is around 50%; for our large basket, savings of up to 65% can be made versus on-demand expenditure.
Of course, this misses out on a lot of complexity tied to managing these multiple clouds: skills to manage and operate, platforms that work between providers, and, of course, the cloud-native frameworks that can enable such decoupled applications – but for savings of up to 65%, surely there is an opportunity to be capitalized on. And this cost-savings ability is in addition to the value enabled by being able to use multiple providers.”
Re-read this: “…complexity tied to managing these multiple clouds…” This is where the PetaCMS platform plays an important role. PetaCMS mitigates this previous downside to Enterprise engagement of multi-Cloud. Moreover, access to a Private Hybrid-Cloud compute environment as well as implementation of portable Cloud-Native applications can reduce cost to marginalized expense levels.
The 451 Research white Paper, commissioned by HP, is the best explainer regarding Muti-Cloud economics. It’s also important to calculate even further cost reductions considering the inherent PetaCMS Layer-2 Private Multi-Cloud security. No longer are multiple security expense requirements needed, as the Enterprise compute fabric becomes a data cul-de-sac; where all inbound and outbound data transmission can be observed and secured from a single point.
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