What Is a Hybrid Cloud?
A hybrid cloud is an infrastructure that you can use to bridge cloud and on-premises environments. It requires that your environments be integrated. Hybrid clouds can be composed of either public or private clouds and can be combined with a multi-cloud strategy.
Public clouds are remote clouds that are hosted by third-party vendors. For example, Google, Microsoft, or Amazon. In a public cloud, you share servers and networking with other tenants. Private clouds are remote (often co-located) or on-premises clouds that are managed by you or a third-party vendor.
In private clouds, you use servers and network connections that are dedicated to your use only. A multi-cloud strategy is one that combines cloud services from multiple vendors.
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To be considered a hybrid cloud, an environment must:
Network multiple servers or devices across multiple cloud environment types
Offer increased data availability and scalability
Enable the flow of workloads and data across separate cloud environments
Hybrid Cloud Benefits
There are numerous benefits to hybrid cloud environments, including the following:
Improved business continuity—enables you to store backups and recovery resources in the cloud while retaining original copies on-premises. You can use hybrid environments as a failover in case of disaster or local outage.
Scalability—cloud resources enable you to scale as needed and on-the-fly. You can more quickly provision resources than is possible with on-premises hardware and you only pay for cloud resources while in use. Additionally, hybrid resources can enable you to extend the life of on-premises resources, reducing technical debt.
Increased availability—enables you to distribute traffic and applications across your environments for greater availability. Distributing processing power and requests prevents bottlenecks and reduces the risk of single points of failure.
Supports DevOps—enables DevOps teams to quickly provision resources and deploy projects. Organizations can retain sensitive data and operations on-premises without limiting the speed and flexibility of development operations.