Ask HN: Is there value in being fluent on multiple cloud providers?

[forrestbrazeal]

People who are fluent on more than one cloud provider (AWS + Azure, Azure + GCP) - how has this skillset affected your career?

Does it mostly just expand your job opportunities (ie, you can get hired by a GCP shop or an AWS shop), or do you find yourself working with multiple clouds at your current job?

[salawat]

To build robust systems, you ideally want heterogenous, redundant architecture, which translates to the same set of systems built on different platforms. Statistically speaking, unless there is something incestuous going on you aren't aware of with your cloud providers, it is unlikely all of your providers will go down at once.

Reconcilation and graceful fail over/propagation of state is left as an exercise to the student.

[inkeddeveloper]

Breadth is more important for junior devs. Depth is more important for architects.