How do you get to the point where your application is operating in a polycloud environment? Some arrive at a polycloud architecture quite accidentally. As their applications, organizations, and cloud dependence grow, they find they are, before they even know it, operating in a polycloud environment. They experience all the advantages and disadvantages that polyclouds offer without actively making a decision to arrive there.
Other organizations take very deliberate and planned steps to build out a polycloud architecture. They do it because of the advantages that such an architecture brings, and they believe these advantages outweigh the potential disadvantages.
Let’s look closer at the different routes that companies take in their journey toward polycloud architectures.
Managing Risk
Risk management is a popular, albeit often accidental route to polycloud.
Take a look at Figure 2-1. Here you see a typical cloud architecture that has been optimized for risk management. Multiple cloud providers are used to provide parallel services, with the hope that if a single cloud provider has an operational issue, the other cloud providers will not and traffic can be routed to those other providers.
Figure 2-1. Multicloud for risk management
This is not a polycloud architecture, though. Instead, the creator of this architecture, as we learned previously, created ...
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