A multicloud abstracts away the complexities of managing multiple cloud services from different cloud providers of the same type (i.e., public or private), by consolidating them into a single unified data plane.
It’s a situation that’s all too familiar to anyone who’s had to deal with enterprise cloud deployments: You thought you’d found the perfect public cloud solution with the right blend of service-level agreements (SLAs), security, performance, and cost to support a specific customer-facing feature in your custom app. Later on, you find yourself in need of a critical feature that’s only available in a different public cloud provider’s proprietary app. To integrate this new service into your app for scalability, the vendor requires you to also host the app in its proprietary public cloud.
Since no one cloud app is perfect, you continue to repeat this process over and over again as your app grows and develops to maintain your competitive advantage. Before you know it, your IT team is overwhelmed managing this disparate collection of public cloud apps. At some point, it becomes clear that it’s time to invest in a multicloud solution that helps you consolidate all these public cloud resources into a single unified interface.
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Although it may be tempting to use the two terms interchangeably, they’re not mutually exclusive. A multicloud architecture could involve the unification of two private clouds or two public clouds, but the moment you unify public and private cloud environments, you’re dealing with a hybrid cloud architecture. Here’s a closer look at each solution:
A multicloud approach involves using different clouds to handle different tasks while a hybrid cloud involves using your public and private cloud resources together to support the same task. It’s possible for a multicloud to also be part of a larger hybrid cloud depending on how you deploy your services.
The main benefits of a multicloud architecture include:
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