Use cases of a hybrid cloud 

We can categorize the use cases broadly into three, based on the existence of different tiers of applications in the clouds, and also the different applications in an enterprise: 

• Isolated use cases 
• Distributed use cases
• Coexisting use cases 
• Supporting application use cases 

Isolated use case 

This is one of the simplest use cases. In this, an enterprise runs some applications in a public cloud and others in a private cloud, the applications don't communicate among themselves regularly, but may transfer data using a batch process. 

It might also be the case that one application uses the services of the other - with the communication over an API. ...