Introducing the scaffold for multi-cloud environments

How does a business start in the cloud? You would be surprised, but a lot of companies still just start without having a plan. How difficult can it get, after all? You get a subscription and begin deploying resources. That probably works fine with really small environments, but you will soon discover that it literally grows over your head. Think of it—would you start building a data center just by acquiring a building and obtaining an Ethernet cable and a rack of servers? Of course not. So why would you just start building without a plan in the public cloud? You would be heading for disaster – and that's no joke. As we already saw in Chapter 1, Introduction to Multi-Cloud, a business will need a clear overview of costs, a demarcation on who does what, when, and why in the cloud, and, most important, it all needs to be secure by protecting data and assets, just as a business would do in a traditional data center...