Is hybrid cloud the solution?

As we've already discussed, the public cloud, while it can solve some challenges, introduces others. It was in this context that the hybrid cloud emerged: to mitigate some of the challenges and take the best from each provider, from on-premises, private, or cloud providers. The HashiCorp State of Cloud Strategy Survey, which was made in 2021 with more than 3,200 technology practitioners, found that multi-cloud is already a reality. 76% of the respondents stated that they are using multiple cloud vendors, with expectations for this to rise to 86% by 2023.

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You can check out the complete HashiCorp research at https://www.hashicorp.com/state-of-the-cloud [Accessed 31 August 2021].

So, what are the characteristics of the hybrid cloud that help mitigate the challenges of public cloud adoption? Here are a few of them:

• Best-of-breed cloud services from different vendors can be combined, enabling a company to choose the best option for each workload.
• The ability to migrate workloads between different public and private cloud environments, depending on the actual circumstances.
• Being able to have a single, unified orchestration and management across all the environments for all providers.

The following table lists some of the challenges and hybrid cloud mitigations: