Long-standing fears about being locked into a particular vendor’s IT solution can freeze decision-making when IT leaders seek to invest in new capabilities. Multi-cloud provides new opportunities to quickly gain those capabilities without being exceedingly beholden to any one vendor, but lock-in avoidance is not necessarily the right motivation on which to base a multi-cloud strategy.
Vendor lock-in has been around since the dawn of commercial computing. An early justification for cloud was that it would do away with lock-in as customers could simply take their cloud assets and move to another cloud vendor.