How often do you ask yourself: how many clouds do I need? There are multiple reasons for organizations to use the multi-cloud. It might be ensuring high availability of applications using the infrastructure of two or more clouds, or a lessening dependency on a specific vendor (“vendor lock-in”) and a strengthening an organization’s negotiating position by transferring some resources to a competitive cloud. Finally, for some applications, it is important to use specific platform as a service layers that are unique for a given platform.