What is Multi-Cloud?

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Multi-cloud is a strategy where organizations make use of a combination of services provided by different cloud vendors to solve their business purposes. For example, they can use one public cloud from AWS, another from Microsoft Azure, or a mix of public clouds and private clouds (a hybrid cloud approach) from multiple providers.

A multi-cloud strategy is the approach adopted by an organization to create an environment using more than one cloud provider for their business requirements. It is important to have a good multi-cloud strategy in order to reduce the complexities and enjoy the benefits of multi-cloud.

An example of multi-cloud can be two public clouds from multiple public cloud providers, where applications use data from one cloud, while performing analytics on another.

The hybrid cloud approach is a deployment model where an organization uses a mix of public clouds and private clouds or on-premise servers) from the same vendor. In a multi-cloud, organizations can use clouds from different vendors. Hybrid cloud can also be used in a multi-cloud strategy.

Multi-cloud strategy ensures organizations evaluate risks and security measures early on and choose the right services and integration methods. Further, by implementing the right multi-cloud strategy, organizations can save costs and deploy high-speed infrastructure, thus improving performance.

Multi-cloud makes the cloud computing environment a bit complicated. Although security becomes more challenging because of increased vulnerability to attacks, it can be handled by ensuring proper methods are in place: centralizing the security measures across the multiple cloud platforms, constantly monitoring threats and upgrading security functions, and encrypting all the communication channels, including communication between the applications, and in the control plane.

To implement a multi-cloud strategy, you have to follow a set of best practices and make a plan based on your business requirements. For example, asking questions like “Why do I need a multi-cloud architecture?” can help you determine how many clouds you need and set your goals accordingly. The next step is to identify the risks and security concerns and select the vendors based on the value-added services and unique features they provide. A good multi-cloud strategy also involves overcoming the associated challenges

Some top benefits of multi-cloud are freedom from vendor lock-in, cost savings, and increased performance. Some challenges of multi-cloud are ensuring security and the increased complexity of managing multiple cloud environments.

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