Multicloud strategy recommendations
Adopting a multicloud approach requires balancing the need for security, resilience, and risk management with the need for flexibility and innovation. AWS guides organizations to adopt solutions that solve real-world business problems, and using multiple providers should similarly add value that outweighs potential additional costs and other challenges.
Cloud adoption provides a wealth of benefits that are essential to technology modernization, cost-effectiveness, and innovation. The technological and business changes involved in implementing workloads in the cloud require staff training and adjustments to core infrastructure, including networking, security, governance, and operations. If you are new to the cloud, we recommend that you start with a single provider to learn and achieve cloud benefits before you determine whether a multicloud strategy is right for your business. It is typically more effective to master one cloud provider's operating model at one time. This approach simplifies the upskilling of employees and minimizes the potential risk of cross-cloud dependencies and operational latency, while allowing you to establish consistent controls, policies, and playbooks.
Organizations that move to the cloud by concurrently adopting multiple cloud providers often regret that decision and the complexity it introduces.
As FIs gain cloud experience and expand the size of their cloud teams, they might align different lines of business with specific cloud providers that best meet their business requirements. The following sections offer a structured approach for navigating the complexities of multicloud environments, and guide you through the essential steps to design and implement an effective multicloud framework.
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