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These observations, along with the recent AWS outage, have prompted many organizations to rethink their strategies. The AWS failure was a wake-up call for many enterprises that have most or all workloads in a single public cloud environment. The resulting disruptions exposed the fragility of an overly centralized architecture and pushed business and IT leaders to seek more robust solutions.
The shift toward diversification
Today, multicloud and hybrid cloud environments form the foundations of the most practical, resilient cloud strategies. Diversifying cloud resources helps enterprises choose the best tools for specific workloads. Hybrid setups allow workloads to run across public clouds, private clouds, and data centers. This prevents data lock-in, spreads risk, boosts uptime, and enables organizations to adapt quickly to market changes.
This trend isn’t just a contingency plan for outages; it also sets the stage for smarter cloud usage. Instead of migrating everything to the cloud, enterprises are figuring out which workloads should go where. Some applications and data require the elasticity and scalability of public cloud infrastructure, while others (highly sensitive or latency-critical systems) benefit from staying on premises. This measured approach reflects a more mature understanding of the cloud’s promise, enabling organizations to maximize the value
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