Updated on 2024-01-04 GMT+08:00

Hybrid Cloud Architecture

Application Scenarios

  • Multi-cloud deployment and disaster recovery

    Running apps in containers on different clouds can ensure high availability. When a cloud is down, other clouds respond and serve.

  • Traffic distribution and auto scaling

    Large organizations often span cloud facilities in different regions. They need to communicate and auto scale — start small and then scale as system load grows. CCE takes care of these for you, cutting the costs of maintaining facilities.

  • Migration to the cloud and database hosting

    Industries like finance and security have a top concern on data protection. They want to run critical systems in local IDCs while moving others to the cloud. They also expect one unified dashboard to manage all systems.

  • Environment decoupling

    To ensure IP security, you can decouple development from production. Set up one on the cloud and the other in the local IDC.

Benefits

Your apps and data can flow free on and off the cloud. Resource scheduling and DR are much easier, thanks to environment-independent containers. CCE provides container services with interconnected networks and unified management.

Advantages

  • On-cloud DR

    Multicloud prevents systems from outages. When a cloud is faulty, CCE auto diverts traffic to other clouds to ensure service continuity.

  • Automatic traffic distribution

    CCE reduces access latency by processing user requests on the nodes nearest to the users. Overloaded apps in local IDCs can be burst to the cloud backed by auto scaling.

  • Decoupling and sharing

    CCE decouples data, environments, and compute capacity. Sensitive data vs general data. Development vs production. Compute-intensive services vs general services. Apps running on-premises can burst to the cloud. Your resources on and off the cloud can be better used.

  • Lower costs

    Cloud resource pools, backed by auto scaling, can respond to load spikes in time. Manual operations are no longer needed and you can save big.

Related Services

Elastic Cloud Server (ECS), Direct Connect (DC), Virtual Private Network (VPN), SoftWare Repository for Container (SWR)

Figure 1 How hybrid cloud works