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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.

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Hybrid Cloud
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