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Lots of enterprises want the ability spill over into public cloud to accommodate burst load, but run their steady load in-house.

You might also want to quickly gain a presence in a geographical region you don't have hardware in (ever or yet).

> Why would they want to deploy to other clouds?

Christmas / Thanksgiving shopping in the US would be my guesses.

theories:

* cloud bursting during high load

* disaster recovery

* putting things in geographic regions where they don't have their own hardware

Here is one:

Since Amazon is basically Walmart without brick and mortar and they make some compelling money from their AWS, why wouldn't Walmart be interested in getting in to that business?