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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

Hybrid Cloud
A computing environment that combines on-premises infrastructure with public cloud services, allowing data and applications to move between them.
Cloud-Native
An approach to building applications that fully exploit cloud computing advantages like scalability, resilience, and flexibility.
CloudFormation
An AWS service that provisions and manages cloud resources using declarative JSON or YAML templates.
Kubernetes Namespace
A virtual cluster within a Kubernetes cluster that provides scope for names and enables resource isolation between teams or environments.
Virtual Machine (VM)
A software-based emulation of a physical computer that runs its own operating system and applications.
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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