Multi-Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, Public Cloud
The New Role of Cloud Services in the Modern Enterprise

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Despite their continued usage, hybrid clouds have been augmented or even replaced by the emerging use of multi-cloud architectures. These are public clouds, such as IBM Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, although specialized industry-specific public clouds may be leveraged as well.

A multi-cloud architecture offers a few core advantages:

  • The power of choice. Those who build and deploy systems in the cloud are not required to leverage one cloud brand of storage systems, computer systems, or a set of native databases. They can take a “best of breed” approach to picking cloud services across brands. They can even mix and match services to optimize the cloud-native services that support a single application, or a series of related applications.
  • Cloud-native capabilities. If we leverage the native services within specific public cloud providers, we can choose the best of what each of those cloud providers offers in cloud-native services, such as security, governance, container orchestration, management and monitoring, and more.
  • The ability to place no bets. When we pick a single cloud provider this involves becoming dependent upon that provider. Outages, security issues, service cost hikes, etc., are going to hurt Multi-Cloud,