Can You Use Multiple Cloud Providers?

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Have you ever wondered if your organization could harness the power of multiple cloud providers? Think about it—two is always better than one, right?

The brief answer is: yes, it's possible! In fact, leveraging two or more cloud providers is more common than you might think, and certain businesses depend on this type of setup.

So, if you're looking for insight on incorporating multiple cloud providers—keep reading! We'll guide you through the basics in this blog post.

How Do Multiple Cloud Providers Work?

Several important factors must be considered when migrating your application to the public cloud. First, you need to assess the application's current architecture. For example, are you moving a legacy application with older components to the cloud? Will these components need to be updated?

Next, you'll need to answer these questions:

  • Does the application have data governance or regulatory requirements?
  • Where are the users located, and how do they access the application?
  • Is the application mission-critical?
  • What is the cost of downtime?

Why Using Multiple Cloud Vendors Helps

You might think using multiple cloud vendors sounds like overkill. But let us assure you that it isn't, especially under specific circumstances. Doing so provides four major benefits:

Maximize your application uptime: Using multiple cloud providers can ensure a provider outage won't affect your uptime. Balancing your application across multiple locations guarantees that if one location is compromised, your application can continue to service its customers.

Avoid vendor lock-in: By architecting your application using open standards and balancing across multiple public cloud providers, you can avoid being at the whim of a provider that increases pricing or changes features in a way that doesn't suit you and your organization.

Save on overall costs: Using multiple cloud providers may lower your cloud bills if you can position parts of the application closer to end users who need responsiveness. This often leads to a reduction in bandwidth charges as data flows to and from the cloud.

Improve application performance: By leveraging the strong suits of each provider, you're often able to optimize the performance of your application. This occurs in two ways:

  • First, it may geographically position parts of the application closer to your users.
  • Second, it may leverage services that one provider performs better than another.

How Can Hypershift Help?

Hypershift is a consulting organization focused on SaaS, subscription software, and cloud technologies. We help organizations navigate their shift toward subscription software models. Our mission is to ensure best-in-class security, support, and management to optimize enterprise-level cloud strategies.

Our experts will guide you through cloud- and application-specific considerations. We stay up-to-date with evolving capabilities and best practices. We combine our experience, training, and expertise with your requirements to present options and recommendations.

We collaborate with public cloud providers, including major players like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. We also work with various private label options that may better suit your application. These could involve data privacy, geographic requirements, regulatory concerns, or application compatibility.

We then present you with options and discuss the pros and cons of each one. By the end, you're well-informed, have multiple choices, and will likely benefit from capabilities and features that are often overlooked when migrating in-house.

We utilize multiple cloud providers and set up your cloud environment to seamlessly integrate with your existing IT architecture. Your application can be distributed across multiple public cloud providers.

Final Thoughts

Using multiple cloud providers isn't just a smart decision; it's almost common sense these days. Not only do you get to take advantage of managing your application better; but you can cut costs, increase your security, and ensure your application's uptime—simultaneously.

Reach out to us at Hypershift to get started on your multi-cloud journey!