Caution: Cloud brokers may not deliver what you expect

These are really multicloud architectures reinvented for MSPs, so they can manage many public cloud resources from different brands and providers using a single layer of abstraction. Certainly, such a multicloud approach for an enterprise is valuable. But the ability to provision and deprovision public clouds services does not provide application portability, only the ability to manage many different clouds. That difference can be a huge issue. Most applications built for public cloud providers, or enterprise ones ported there, are localized for that provider. Thus, it's no easy task to move it from one public cloud to another -- say, from AWS to Microsoft -- without a great deal of work, cost, and risk.