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The example given at the emit conference was: You have a lot of code running in AWS, but all of a sudden, you would like to start using some nice features around google ML, and for this you need integration with google cloud.

Over a longer period, the idea is that there is an oligopoly of PaaS providers and if their features don't match 1:1 perfectly, your business may need a hybrid approach.

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> The example given at the emit conference was: You have a lot of code running in AWS, but all of a sudden, you would like to start using some nice features around google ML, and for this you need integration with google cloud.

I'm at the conference, and this isn't a great example. You don't need to set up a Google Cloud Function to use the Google ML APIs (or pretty much any Google APIs), you can just use them over the REST API.

Multi-cloud use case has a very niche use. I have a very few clients that use multi-cloud strategy but when they do it's very structured. Certain workloads use certain providers and those services have auxiliary services that reside very near for performance and cost efficiencies. But yes I agree. Not the best example.

- I'm a the conference as well

I think an advantage could be if you wanted to push the message from a lambda function into a google cloud pub sub topic which a google cloud function would consume possibly?

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