It is undeniable that cloud computing is now increasingly popular and growing rapidly because it has been widely used in the business world to meet their needs. If you are familiar with the term cloud, you must be familiar with the term hybrid cloud or multi-cloud. What do they mean? In the previous article, a little about hybrid cloud has been discussed. Continuing the previous article, let’s discuss the difference between hybrid cloud vs multi-cloud. Not much different, hybrid cloud and multi-cloud have similarities but are different.

What is Hybrid Cloud?

Hybrid cloud is a combination of on-premise infrastructure (private cloud) with public cloud. Hybrid cloud services integrate in-house IT infrastructure with other products and services to meet the specific and unique needs of a business. Meanwhile, according to Balakrishnan in an article written by Casey, hybrid cloud is a combination of local cloud and third-party cloud with orchestration between the two. The “right” cloud solution for most businesses is neither public nor private but a combination of the two, added Joy Su in another article.

What is Multi-Cloud?

As the name implies, multi-cloud is a combination of cloud services from different providers with or without a private cloud. There are several reasons why a company chooses this multi-cloud approach, some of which are reducing the risk of outages. While the drawback is higher costs due to its complexity.

Before you decide to choose between hybrid cloud or multi-cloud, first understand the patterns of both as mentioned by Linthicum in his article:

Hybrid Cloud Multi-cloud

Always combines private cloud and public cloud such as openstack private cloud and AWS

Data is fixed in the private cloud or public cloud

Focus on native cloud usage and cost management

Focus on native performance analytics

Focus on native ops tool support

Hybrid Cloud Multi-cloud

Always involves 2 or more public clouds such as Google, AWS, and Azure.

Data is fixed in the public cloud provider.

Focus on third-party cloud usage and cost management.

Focus on third-party performance analytics

Focus on third-party ops tool support

So that’s the difference between hybrid cloud Vs multi-cloud. Keep in mind, before you decide to choose which is the best between the two, pay attention to the table above. One thing that is no less important is to adjust to what is needed from your company.

References:

https://www.technopedia.com/definition/15570/hybrid-cloud

https://www.techradar.com/news/what-is-multicloud

https://enterprisersproject.com/srticle/2017/7/multi-cloud-vs-hybrid-cloud-whats-difference

https://www.bms.com/blogs/hybrid-cloud-vs-multi-cloud-whats-the-difference

https://techbeacon.com/enterprise-it/multicloud-vs-hybrid-cloud-management-top-approaches-tools