The results of the 2022 HashiCorp State of Cloud Strategy Survey highlight the growing adoption of multi-cloud approaches, with 90% of respondents achieving their business goals through this strategy. The survey also emphasizes the importance of cloud security, skills shortages, and spending management in multi-cloud environments. Platform teams are playing a critical role in helping companies operationalize multi-cloud strategies, with 81% of respondents already using or planning to use multiple clouds. However, challenges remain, including ongoing concerns about cloud security, skills shortages, and waste due to overprovisioned resources and lack of needed skills. Forrester Consulting's analysis provides recommendations for enterprises to tailor their multi-cloud strategy to business goals, automate operations to reduce waste and increase efficiency, leverage security automation tools, and develop platform teams to cover all functional layers.