A hybrid cloud Mix two or more types of cloud environments. It is a combination of public and private clouds coming together to achieve the best of both worlds.
“For a cloud to be truly hybrid, the different cloud environments must be tightly interconnected with each other, essentially functioning as a combined infrastructure,” the Cloudflare site clarifies.
Hybrid cloud seeks to optimize the infrastructure so that the workload between the private and public cloud can be better managed.
The operation of the public and private clouds that constitute a hybrid cloud does not differ from the operation of those that are independent. The operation is given in this way, as detailed on the Red Hat site:
1. Multiple computers are connected to each other through a local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN), virtual private network (VPN), or application programming interfaces (APIs).
2. Virtualization, containers, or software-defined storage isolate resources, which can be pooled into data lakes.
3. The management software distributes those resources among the environments where the applications can run, which are then deployed on demand, with the help of an authentication service.
Profits
Agility. From DataCloud they highlight that a hybrid cloud allows better unification of public and private cloud resources in the same environment, which gives greater agility to processes.
Flexibility. When demand for resources changes, hybrid cloud makes it easier to manage, as companies can expand infrastructure to manage work as needed.
Security. A report by IBM details that a well-built hybrid cloud can serve secure and mission-critical processes, such as the ability to receive payments from clients (a private cloud service), and secondary processes, such as payroll processing. of employees (a public cloud service).
Control: The company can better and more effectively control which resources it will keep in each cloud. Thus, you could maintain a private infrastructure for those processes that, for example, are more confidential or require less latency.
Cost-benefit. It is a more profitable system since it allows the environment to be scaled so that only the computing capacity that is required is paid for.
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