Conclusion: The Future of Multi-Cloud

This book has dealt with designing, implementing, and controlling a multi-cloud platform. We talked about five major clouds—Azure, AWS, GCP, Oracle Cloud, and Alibaba Cloud—and discussed strategies to get the best out of these clouds for our businesses. We discovered that building and managing in the cloud can be complex. Yet, the cloud will definitively grow. We will look at the future of the cloud in this final chapter.

The cloud will grow and multi-cloud will grow. The biggest challenge is how organizations can stay in control of their applications in a multi-cloud setting since the cloud can become very complex. Maybe Google has the answer: Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). SRE incorporates aspects of software engineering and applies them to infrastructure and operations problems. We will also use this chapter to introduce the concept of SRE and its main principles.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the...