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There is continued dialogue among the IT teams and they had to ask themselves when planning a new deployment was, “Should we use cloud or on-prem or to go for the hybrid” The differences between cloud and on-premises environments have grown increasingly irrelevant from the perspective of application developers and IT engineers. On-premises infrastructure typically requires major upfront investment, whereas cloud services are priced on a pay-as-you-go basis. Cloud environments also usually came with complicated fee schedules--such as add-on costs for data egress and API calls--that did not apply on prem. It is also noted to know, the cloud was inherently less secure than on-prem, there was a widespread perception that the cloud could be less secure in the sense that you shared infrastructure with other users. Secondly, there was also a sense that it was more difficult to meet compliance rules in the cloud. The reasoning here was usually that companies have less control over their infrastructure in the cloud, and/or that cloud providers do not provide services that meet compliance mandates.

The fact is, if one is moving to cloud ,they should not feel that their responsibility is over to the cloud companies/providers, rather it increases to many folds. Hybrid cloud refers to a mixed computing, storage, and services environment made up of on-premises infrastructure, private cloud services, and a public cloud—such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure—with orchestration among the various platforms. Using a combination of public clouds, on-premises computing, and private clouds in your data center means that you have a hybrid cloud infrastructure. Although cloud services can drive cost savings, their main value lies in supporting a fast-moving digital business transformation. The primary benefit of a hybrid cloud is agility. The ne.