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It is part of some regulatory frameworks. I’ve met someone from an European insurance company once, who told me they have be be able to switch to a different hyperscaler in 24 hours.

I also think it’s generally a good business practice to keep the number of companies you depend upon as small as possible. Only being able to deploy to one cloud provider is like only having one customer. It can work, but it is risky.



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