multi-cloud
Beyond Market Intelligence keeps multi-cloud in one place: 3 stories so far. The section currently leads with “Google's Spanner Omni goes live, swapping hardware clocks and storage for software”, “Three Clouds, One Architecture: Engineering Resilient Financial Systems”, and “Build portable serverless logic without sacrificing native cloud power”. Google made Spanner Omni generally available, swapping its own hardware clocks and storage for software abstractions. Form3's journey from a single cloud to a triple active multi-cloud architecture is a masterclass in practical engineering. Acme AI is the next-generation, AI-powered spreadsheet platform built to replace Excel and redefine how analysts, data scientists, and enterprise teams work… The list below is every multi-cloud story on Beyond Market Intelligence, newest first.
Google's Spanner Omni goes live, swapping hardware clocks and storage for software
Google made Spanner Omni generally available, swapping its own hardware clocks and storage for software abstractions. Running its distributed SQL database on-premises, across clouds, or on a laptop is a striking move, but the lack of an availability SLA means practitioners are pricing the trade-off in tail latency and operational toil. For more on how cloud services manage reliability under pressure, see our coverage of Cloudflare's cross-tenant data exposure vulnerability.
Three Clouds, One Architecture: Engineering Resilient Financial Systems
Form3's journey from a single cloud to a triple active multi-cloud architecture is a masterclass in practical engineering. Ross McFarlane and Kevin Holditch don't just walk through cross-cloud networking and distributed databases with CockroachDB and NATS; they tackle the messy reality of regional disaster recovery expectations across the UK, Europe, and US markets. It's a grounded look at complexity done right. For a deeper dive into scaling infrastructure, our piece on Modal's sandbox rebuild offers a useful parallel.
Build portable serverless logic without sacrificing native cloud power
Vendor lock-in feels like a price you pay for using the cloud, but Elena van Engelen thinks you can have it both ways. In her presentation, she lays out how Clean Architecture, Spring Cloud Function, and Gradle modules keep business logic portable across AWS and Azure. The payoff is a live demo deploying Kotlin services with Terraform CDK. It's a practical path to flexibility. For more on reducing cloud constraints, check out our piece on stateless deployments with the Model Context Protocol.