A strategy of using services from two or more public cloud providers rather than relying on a single one.
Organizations adopt multi-cloud for several reasons: to use the best service from each provider, to meet data residency rules, to reduce dependence on one vendor, or simply because different teams or acquired companies chose different clouds. It differs from hybrid cloud, which combines public cloud with private infrastructure.
For example, a retailer might run its main website on one provider, use another provider's machine learning services, and keep analytics in a third. Multi-cloud can improve negotiating power and resilience, but it also adds complexity. Teams need skills across several platforms, security policies must be applied consistently, data transfer between clouds can be expensive, and cost tracking becomes harder. Many companies end up multi-cloud by accident and then work to standardize tools and governance.
Delivering computing resources such as servers, storage, databases, and software over the internet on a pay-as-you-go basis.
FinOpsA practice that brings engineering, finance, and business teams together to manage cloud spending and get the most value from it.
Hybrid CloudA computing setup that combines on-premises infrastructure or a private cloud with public cloud services, managed as one environment.
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