Don't Be Scared of Cloud Lock-In

IMO, multi cloud is the future, just as eggs can’t be in one basket. I’ve been building a distributed database for more than 7 years, and find that many of our customers had been using different databases in different cloud vendors before they migrate to our product. E.g, one customer used Azure MySQL, Cloud SQL for MySQL, Aurora for MySQL.

Another thing I find vendor lock-in is not nice, for example, one customer, which is also a big customer of one cloud vendor, has suffered a lot from the cloud vendor’s own database. The customer finds the database it is not stable when its data size grows, has to spent a long and tough time to upgrade to the new version regularly, couldn’t get a good-enough service it expected before.

IMO, not only for our database, but also for other applications on the cloud, supporting multi cloud is mostly a MUST. And we also need to build an easy-to-use product, provide a good-enough service for our customers.