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CROSS-CLOUD DEPLOYMENTS
Avoiding vendor lock-in scenarios is a part of most modern digital transformation
strategies. When resources from one vendor cannot be easily migrated to another
environment, a substantial risk is exposed to any of the digital resources running in
that environment. Suppose a user agreement is violated for a specific vendor or the
resources running in a specific region are subject to an unforeseen outage and high
availability has not been properly configured.
CloudBolt allows an admin to create a blueprint that deploys
servers in two parallel environments. For example, they can
deploy resources in both AWS and VMware vCenter with the
aim of having them work together as a single service. This cross-
cloud deployment can mitigate the risk of vendor lock-in. If one
environment fails, the service can continue to run in the other
environment as resources come back up or are deployed to
another cross-cloud location.
Another cross-cloud — also considered a hybrid cloud strategy — would be to host a
base tier of web servers from a local data center, and if the tier gets overwhelmed,
additional servers are automatically deployed in a public cloud environment like AWS
to create additional capacity.
