Learn About Multicloud Architecture Framework
A multicloud framework brings all these benefits together, enables enterprises and organizations to have access across vendors, and choose the most appropriate workload and data environments best suited to their capabilities.
Organizations benefit from multicloud broadly because of economics, capabilities, and availability. Multicloud can enable your organization to:
- Maximize on the capabilities of each provider
- Reduce risk from single provider outages
- Reduce vendor lock-in and latency
- Improve regional availability
- Reduce audit or compliance issues
- Increase profits from multicloud economics
About Multicloud Use Cases
The following use cases show how multicloud computing can be most effectively utilized:
- Application and database split-stack architecture
- Analytics and database split-stack architecture
- SaaS or ERP data analytics and integration with custom applications
- Horizontal workload distribution
- Production and development split deployment
Considerations for Designing Multicloud Architectures
Adopting a multicloud architecture comes with complexity and requires various considerations at the time of designing the multicloud solution.
When designing a multicloud solution, you must consider network latency, data movements, security, orchestration, and operations management to drive architectural decisions. The multicloud framework sums up these architecture design considerations and enables you to build the best multicloud architecture.
Multicloud architecture framework is mapped to OCI and all multicloud services offered by OCI. Oracle provides customers with the option to either use OCI or any other cloud as their primary cloud service provider (CSP).
Key Design Pillars
The following are the key design pillars of multicloud architecture framework:
- Cloud Core: Select the best service required for the solution and choose the most appropriate service from a particular provider. Cloud Servie Providers (CSPs) of IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS provide various options to choose from. If you choose an inappropriate service, it can be a bad design choice and end up costing more, negating the benefit of a multicloud solution. For example, choosing the most suitable database service for performance and cost optimization in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) can bring true multicloud solution value while hosting the application stack with another CSP.
- Cloud Network Access: Provide the best connectivity options available to achieve low latency and high bandwidths over private network connections across clouds.
- Cloud Operations: Integrate the cloud operating models beyond a single CSP to support the operations team and increase operational efficiency across multicloud.
- Cloud Security: Plan how you can secure the solution with identity integrations and securely monitor and move data in and out of clouds.