CloudConnectivity

CloudConnectivity is the set of technologies and services that enable reliable communication between customer networks and cloud environments. It encompasses options that connect on-premises infrastructure, private clouds, public cloud platforms, and multi-cloud deployments, supporting data transfer, application access, and workload orchestration across disparate environments.

Connectivity methods include internet-based VPNs, dedicated connections such as AWS Direct Connect, Azure ExpressRoute, and Google Cloud Interconnect, and software-defined networking approaches like SD-WAN. Architectures typically involve a customer edge device, a provider edge, and the cloud provider network, with routing often managed by BGP and secured by encryption, firewalls, and identity-based access controls.

Key considerations include latency, bandwidth, availability, and security. Providers commonly offer SLAs for connectivity, and organizations implement redundancy, traffic engineering, and monitoring, along with encryption in transit and at rest, access controls, and compliance with data protection standards.

Common use cases include data migration and backup to the cloud, disaster recovery, hybrid cloud workloads that span on-premises and cloud resources, cloud bursting, and Internet of Things data ingestion. As cloud adoption grows, many organizations pursue multi-cloud connectivity strategies to avoid vendor lock-in and improve resilience.