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Vacca, J.R. (2020). Cloud computing security: Foundations and challenges. (2nd ed.). CRC Press.
Read Chapter 9: Secure Cloud Risk Management, to learn about the nuances for risk mitigation with cloud providers.

Vacca, J.R. (2020). Cloud computing security: Foundations and challenges. (2nd ed.). CRC Press.
Read Chapter 19: Negotiating Cloud Security Requirements with Vendors, to gain insight into different aspects of negotiations with cloud providers.

Vacca, J.R. (2020). Cloud computing security: Foundations and challenges. (2nd ed.). CRC Press.
Read Chapter 12: Cloud Security Access Control: Distributed Access Control, to learn more about access control.

Różańska, M., & Kritikos, K. (2019). Good Bye vendor lock-in : Getting your cloud applications multi-cloud ready!
Proceedings of the 12th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing Companion, 171–173.

Chithambaramani Ramalingam, & Prakash Mohan. (2021). Addressing semantics standards for cloud portability and interoperability in multi cloud environment. Symmetry, 13(317), 317.
This article summarizes the issues involved in semantic cloud portability and interoperability in the multi-cloud environment and define the standardization effort imminently needed for migrating and collaborating services in the multi-cloud environment.