Hybrid & Multicloud — CDL Study Guide

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Hybrid vs. multicloud: what each one combines
Why organizations choose hybrid or multicloud
GKE Enterprise (formerly Anthos): one control plane
Exam-pattern recognition

Hybrid cloud vs. multicloud

Dimension	Hybrid cloud	Multicloud
Definition	Combines a private environment (on-premises or private cloud) with a public cloud	Uses cloud services from two or more public cloud providers
Primary driver	Keep some workloads/data private, for compliance, latency, or gradual migration	Avoid vendor lock-in, pick best-of-breed services, and add cross-cloud resilience
Typical example	Regulated data stays in your data center while the app runs on Google Cloud	Compute on one provider, analytics or AI on another, with failover between them

Cheat sheet

Cheat sheet

Hybrid cloud combines a private environment with a public cloud
Multicloud means using two or more public cloud providers
The hybrid-vs-multicloud test is whether a private environment is involved
Choose hybrid to keep regulated data on-premises while using the cloud
Hybrid lets you migrate to the cloud gradually
Hybrid keeps latency-sensitive compute close to users
Choose multicloud to avoid vendor lock-in and pick best-of-breed services
Multicloud adds resilience against a single provider's outage
GKE Enterprise is the new name for Anthos
GKE Enterprise is the single control plane for hybrid and multicloud clusters
The fleet is how GKE Enterprise groups clusters to manage them together
Don't use GKE Enterprise for a single cluster on one platform

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