The journey started from the cloud to arriving on the multi-cloud. Nowadays, every IT department in an organization is heading towards the multi-cloud era. Let’s first get our heads clear,
- What is multi-cloud?
- What is a hybrid cloud?
As we are hearing, these two terms are sometimes interchangeable.
So multi-cloud is where an organization uses the cloud services from two or more cloud providers, such as the Oracle Cloud, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
A hybrid cloud is where the organization uses on-premises services, or “private cloud,” and a few from any of the cloud providers – public clouds, such as the Oracle Cloud, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
Distributed cloud: organizations want to have their own decision and choice for the cloud resources that they want to have. It could be multiple public clouds, or even an Oracle cloud@customer, an AWS outpost, etc. The point is that services will be like a public cloud and managed, and governed by the public cloud vendor.
Now the first question that comes to mind is, why multi-cloud? A few areas to think of…
- Vendor lock-in (in other words -multiple cloud vendors lock in)
- Data center availability – this is also linked to the compliance requirement that you need to have an in-country data center
- Utilize the best services from the cloud vendor, who specializes in certain services.
- Low latency requirements for certain applications and that vendor doesn’t have a data center in that region.
- Price optimization
- By accident, they opted for multi-cloud (within organizations, the different departments opted for different cloud vendors).
- Resilience (I need to have a backup site with other cloud providers)
The multi-cloud strategy brings several benefits to organizations, however, implementing a multi-cloud also brings challenges, few to mention:
- Compatibility
- Increased complexity
- Security
- Interconnection between different cloud providers
- The learning curve for the IT teams (to learn about different cloud providers)
- Cost estimation and reporting.
- Cloud management
- Multi-cloud architecture
You’ll Learn:
The journey to Multi-cloud:
- Fundamentals of multi-cloud
- What are the benefits, and challenges of multi-cloud?
- the common patterns of deployments
- what are the common cloud management platforms
- what are the common cloud networking providers
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