According to IBM, multi-cloud is the use of cloud services from two or more vendors, giving organizations more flexibility for optimizing performance, controlling costs, and leveraging the best cloud technologies available. It can be something as simple as using SaaS from different cloud vendors. However, in an enterprise setting, the multi-cloud would usually refer to running the enterprise applications on PaaS or IaaS from multi-cloud service providers, like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure, etc.
While we are at it, let us also understand what is a multi-cloud solution. A multi-cloud solution is a portable cloud computing solution across multiple cloud providers' cloud infrastructures. These solutions would usually be built on open-source, cloud-native platforms like Kubernetes and would be supported by all the public cloud providers. These solutions would also include workload management capabilities across multiple cloud platforms with a central console.
Understanding some popular myths around multi-cloud
Myth # 1: Multicloud involves no vendor lock-in
Myth # 2: Multicloud is always a cost-effective solution
Myth # 3: Multicloud deployments require traditional systems to be eliminated
It is also a fact that doing this makes multi-cloud systems a lot more complex and expensive. But if an enterprise is trying to solve problems holistically while being scalable, flexible, and agile, then it makes sense to extend this benefit to as many systems as possible.
However, in sum-total whether to go multi-cloud or not and how to use the multi-cloud, and how many systems to include the multi-cloud would depend on every enterprise’s case, there is no one-size-fits-all universal solution.
That are the top three myths about multi-cloud that we wanted to bust today. We hope you found this information useful.
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