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Using multiple cloud providers for flexibility and resilience
Cloud Flexibility
Multi-cloud strategy involves using services from multiple cloud providers—AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and others—rather than committing to a single vendor. Organizations adopt multi-cloud to avoid vendor lock-in, leverage best-of-breed services, meet compliance requirements, and improve resilience.
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Avoid single vendor lock-in
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Use best service per need
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Container orchestration
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Infrastructure as code
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Cross-cloud networking
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Moving data between clouds
Multi-cloud offers flexibility and avoids vendor lock-in, but introduces complexity in management, security, and cost optimization. Tools like Kubernetes for containers, Terraform for infrastructure as code, and service meshes for networking help abstract provider differences. The key is balancing portability with leveraging cloud-specific innovations.
Learn to architect applications across multiple cloud providers.