Cloud Computing Intermediate

What is Multi-Cloud?

A strategy of using services from multiple cloud providers to avoid vendor lock-in and leverage best-of-breed capabilities.

Multi-cloud distributes workloads across AWS, Azure, GCP, and other providers. This avoids dependency on a single vendor, leverages each provider's strengths (e.g., GCP for ML, AWS for breadth), and improves resilience.

Challenges include increased complexity, inconsistent APIs, data transfer costs, and security management across platforms. Tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, and Pulumi help manage multi-cloud infrastructure consistently.

Related Terms

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Google's suite of cloud computing services running on the same infrastructure that Google uses for its consumer products.

IAM (Identity and Access Management)

A framework for managing digital identities and controlling who can access which cloud resources and services.

Automatically adjusting the number of computing resources based on current demand to maintain performance and optimize costs.

Identity and Access Management services that control who can access cloud resources and what actions they can perform.

An AWS service that provisions and manages cloud resources using declarative JSON or YAML templates.

CDK (Cloud Development Kit)

A software development framework for defining cloud infrastructure using familiar programming languages instead of YAML or JSON templates.

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