The team at Logicworks has advised hundreds of companies, large and small, about cloud migrations. Many businesses don’t have this luxury.īusinesses often struggle to monitor and control cloud costs on a single platform, and introducing another cloud platform may increase the chances of waste. The most common answer to the multi-cloud complexity problem is a single monitoring dashboard, but this is one of many challenges.ĭo you have compliance requirements or maintain a configuration management system? You will need to reproduce your governance processes and prepare for audits on multiple platforms as well as rewrite configuration management scripts or other automation tools for each platform.Īt Logicworks, it took us nearly a year to reproduce our AWS management plan on Microsoft Azure, including items like automated backups, patching, and custom alerts - and we had an entire team of engineers dedicated to this task. Since multi-cloud uses a wider range of cloud services, it is more complex (and often times more expensive) to manage. What are some of the disadvantages of multi-cloud? In fact, studies show that 86% of enterprises are using a multi-cloud strategy. If we visualize multi-cloud, it might look like this:Īs you might guess, most enterprises today are multi-cloud. Multi-cloud differs from hybrid cloud in that it refers to multiple cloud services, rather than multiple deployment modes (public, private, legacy). They don’t have to share data or resources they can be entirely independent architectures. For example, you could run your client-facing application in AWS but run your ERP system in Azure. Multi-cloud is similar to hybrid cloud in that it uses both public and private clouds but not necessarily for the same architecture or application. If we visualize hybrid cloud, it might look like this: A common example of this would be having your database on-premises and your web application in a public cloud provider like AWS. The National Institute of Standards and Technology defines hybrid cloud as a “composition of two or more distinct cloud infrastructures (private or public) that remain unique entities but are bound together by standardized or proprietary technology that enables data and application portability.” This means a private on-premises cloud connected via VPN or dedicated connection to a public cloud provider is shared data.

Multi-cloud and hybrid can be mistaken as interchangeable, but the two are very different. What’s the difference between multi-cloud and hybrid cloud?

Large enterprises may also be able to maximize the benefits of different infrastructure vendors that are competing on price for their business (smaller companies won’t have this luxury). Multi-cloud also provides protection against the failure of a single cloud platform. This gives companies the flexibility they need to select the “best” of each cloud to suit their particular needs based on economics, location, and timing. Multi-cloud allows you to choose the right platform for your application and customers while using the best features from each cloud service provider. Public cloud services deliver functionality without having to hire personnel. Cost effectiveness – Multi-cloud enables businesses to control their costs by optimizing the public cloud and choosing infrastructure vendors based on price.Avoid Vendor Lock-In – This allows the application, workload, and data to be run in any cloud based on business or technical requirements at any given time.Flexibility – Multi-cloud gives businesses the option to select the “best” of each cloud to suit their particular needs based on economics, location, and timing.If a cloud is unavailable, other clouds remain online to run applications. High availability – The multi-cloud provides protection for an organization’s data storage against threats.The three most important benefits of utilizing multiple clouds are: The end result is the capacity to orchestrate resources across multiple private or public cloud platforms that contain multiple cloud vendors, accounts, availability zones, or regions or premises.

Multi-cloud is the use of two or more cloud computing services, including any combination of public, private, and hybrid.

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