Many cloud providers are learning to eat their own dog food, and they’re leveraging other clouds to augment missing pieces of their offerings. As a result, you may find that a cloud provider offering software as a service (SaaS) is actually leveraging another cloud for storage, another cloud for compute, and perhaps other components as well.

As cloud computing evolves — and providers try to get the market quickly — we could find that offerings appearing to be from a single provider are actually a composite of various cloud providers brought together to form a solution. I’ve found myself in briefing after briefing where this is the case. But should you care?