A digital disruption pioneer, Uber had yet to commit to cloud.
The company wrestled with technology debt, manual workloads and demanding on-prem systems, according to an Uber engineering September Blog post. “Our server fleet was growing rapidly and our tooling and teams weren’t able to keep up,” the post said.
In response, Uber pursued a hybrid multivendor strategy that would give IT the ability to “leverage cloud server capacity across multiple providers,” Uber said.
