Following a risk assessment a company decides to adopt a mul - CompTIA CLO-002

Correct Answer: B. Vendor Lock-In

Vendor lock-in occurs when a company becomes overly dependent on a single cloud provider, making it difficult or costly to switch providers due to proprietary technologies, data migration complexities, or contract limitations. By adopting a multicloud strategy, the company mitigates the risk of vendor lock-in by diversifying its applications and workloads across multiple cloud providers.

• Why it’s correct:
  • A multicloud strategy provides flexibility to avoid reliance on a single vendor.
  • It allows the company to take advantage of competitive pricing, unique features from different providers, and ensures they can easily switch or integrate services.
  • Example: A company may host some workloads on AWS and others on Azure to avoid being tied to the tools or ecosystems of a single provider.

Why the Other Options Are Incorrect:

Geo-Redundancy (Incorrect)

Geo-redundancy involves deploying resources in multiple geographic locations to ensure data and application availability in case of regional failures or disasters.

• Why it’s incorrect:
  Geo-redundancy can be achieved with a single cloud provider by using multiple data centers in different regions. Adopting a multicloud strategy is not primarily aimed at addressing geo-redundancy.

High Availability (Incorrect)

High availability ensures that systems and applications remain operational with minimal downtime by using redundancy and failover mechanisms.

• Why it’s incorrect:
  High availability can be achieved within a single cloud provider by using their native tools and services, such as load balancers and failover clusters. Multicloud strategies are not specifically aimed at improving high availability.

Data Sovereignty (Incorrect)

Data sovereignty involves ensuring that data complies with the legal and regulatory requirements of the country where it is stored or processed.

• Why it’s incorrect:
  While multicloud strategies can help address data sovereignty by selecting providers with data centers in specific regions, the primary goal of multicloud in this scenario is risk mitigation against vendor lock-in.