If you’ve sat through a cloud keynote lately, you’ve heard the terms multi-cloud and hybrid cloud. They sound futuristic — but behind the buzz are two very different strategies.
Multi-cloud is about choice and resilience: pick the best tool from AWS, Azure, GCP, or smaller providers, and never get stuck with one vendor’s bill. The tradeoff? More complexity, more dashboards, and higher skill requirements.
Hybrid cloud is about governance: keeping sensitive data or legacy systems on private infrastructure while bursting elastic workloads into the public cloud. Great for banks, healthcare, and government. Less great for small startups that just need to ship.
Both approaches are valid, but neither is magic. The smartest teams focus less on buzzwords and more on execution: portability, observability, and cost control.
So — is your company leaning into multi-cloud flexibility, or keeping things hybrid for compliance?
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