polycloud
Polycloud is a cloud strategy in which an organization runs workloads, services, and data across multiple cloud providers with deliberate design choices to exploit provider strengths while maintaining portability. It differs from a simple multi-cloud approach by emphasizing active orchestration, portability, and the ability to swap or migrate components without lock-in.
Architecture and patterns include containerization and Kubernetes as a common runtime, infrastructure as code, and cloud-agnostic
Benefits of polycloud include greater resilience and business continuity, reduced vendor lock-in, access to best-of-breed services,
Challenges center on higher operational complexity, cost and data-transfer considerations, security and governance fragmentation, skill requirements,
Governance and management require policy-driven controls, centralized visibility, standardized APIs, and clear ownership of workloads across
Use cases span global enterprises with diverse regulatory and performance requirements, workloads that benefit from specialized