The differences between hybrid and multi-cloud

Whenever a technology team decides to adopt one cloud or multiple cloud infrastructure platforms, these platforms may need to be integrated with other existing systems. Whether there were existing on-premises environments that they wanted to migrate or were already using a different platform, there may be nuances for how to properly connect them to ensure secure communications.

Let’s go ahead and clarify the classification for the different terms.

A hybrid cloud environment is a cloud computing environment that combines on-premises infrastructure with public cloud services. This allows organizations to keep some of their data and applications on-premises, while others are moved to the public cloud.

Hybrid cloud environments make sense when an organization has already made meaningful investments in its on-premises infrastructure and may not be able to fully migrate all of its infrastructure. There may also be systems that...