Hybrid Cloud: Integration of Private and Public Cloud

Public Cloud:

Public Cloud is a type of computing in which resources are made available to the public by the service provider via the internet. Resources Cloud Storage, Virtual machines etc.

Advantages:

• Easily scalable resources according to current requirements.

• Ease of accessibility i.e via the internet, anywhere.

• Strict security policies to secure user’s data

• Services according to organisational requirements i.e IaaS, PaaS, SaaS.

• Hassle-free maintenance.

• Efficient Disaster Recovery mechanism.

Private Cloud:

Private Cloud is a type of computing model in which resources are made available within the organisational premises. Facilitates a secure cloud network which can only be accessed by specific users or clients.

• Flexible and improved allocation of resources to different departments within an organisation

• High level of security

• Efficient upgradation of resources

• Virtualized operating environments making the network is more resilient to individual failures within the infrastructure.

• Allows sensitive processes to switch to public cloud easily.

  
  

Hybrid Cloud:

Hybrid Cloud is an integration of both Private and Public Cloud for high efficiency in performing distinct functions in an organisation. For example, an environment created mixing On-premise, private cloud and public cloud (i.e GCP, AWS, Azure).  This framework efficiently utilises the advantages of public resources to upscale their internal resources without risking an overload in case of unexpected spikes in usage.

• Ease of scalability.

• Cost efficiency much greater than private cloud

• Enables more private functions to run on Private framework and sensitive functions to run on Public.

• Highly secure and flexible according to organisational needs.

How Hybrid infrastructure can be used?

As hybrid cloud facilitates the maximum reliability, an e-commerce organisation can use a hybrid model by hosting their website on a private cloud for security and their brochure in public cloud to take advantage of scalability.

Alternatively, an organisation can host their application on a private cloud and take advantage of the public cloud for ease of scalability of storage.