At the start of AWS re:Invent in December, Andy Jassy gave a marathon three-hour keynote speech covering many product announcements - you can watch the whole presentation if you like. One of the things I found most interesting, however, was what Jassy did not talk about – namely multi-cloud. At the end of his keynote, he discussed new AWS on-premises solutions that can also work in the cloud, but the word “multi-cloud” was never to be heard.

That said, there was a softening...