Hybrid clouds combine public and private clouds, offer flexibility and enable the use of secure private clouds for sensitive applications. They also include clouds of different types.
They consist of different environments such as edge locations, on-premises data centers and cloud infrastructures. Implementation requires reliable hybrid cloud networking via LAN, WAN, VPN and APIs. Modern hybrid cloud architectures emphasize workload portability and automated deployment with cloud-native technologies.
A unified hybrid cloud platform offers benefits such as improved developer productivity, infrastructure efficiency and regulatory compliance. Enterprises use hybrid cloud services for flexible scalability, workload optimization and cost efficiency.