Planning a Multicloud Solution

Planning a Multicloud Solution

1h 46mIntermediate2025-08-05

Authors

David Linthicum

David Linthicum

Chief Cloud Strategy Officer at Deloitte Consulting

Course details

As cloud strategies continue to evolve, organizations are increasingly realizing that to build a cloud architecture that fully meets their needs, they must utilize multiple cloud computing services. For example, an enterprise may use separate cloud providers for infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and software-as-a-service (SaaS) services, or utilize multiple infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) providers. In this course, instructor David Linthicum covers best practices for building an effective multicloud strategy. He includes tips for selecting tools; governance of resources, cost, and security; creating a strategy; and staging deployment and testing. Considerations related to AIOps, SecOps, and CloudOps are all explored. David also examines several use cases where multiple service providers can be utilized simultaneously.

Learning objectives
Determine how to properly plan for security, governance, and operations in your multicloud strategy and how to select the related tools that best accomplish your needs.
Determine how to operate AI systems within a multicloud deployment successfully.
Examine ways to maintain control over associated costs through monitoring, reporting, and optimization.
Discover how to build automation into your multicloud strategy.

Skills covered

Cloud FoundationsCloud AdministrationCloud ComputingOne-Off

Concepts

Introduction

  • Introduction to multicloud

Understanding Multicloud

  • Why multicloud deployments need planning
  • What is multicloud
  • Why multicloud
  • Multicloud advantages
  • Multicloud disadvantages

Preparing for Multicloud

  • The business case for multicloud
  • Migration planning
  • Security planning
  • Governance planning
  • Operations planning
  • Skills and tools needed
  • Other things to consider

Selecting Technology

  • Public clouds
  • Private clouds
  • Tools for operations
  • Tools for security
  • Tools for governance
  • Connecting legacy systems
  • Data integration between clouds
  • Linking things together
  • Smaller cloud providers (regional, sovereign, micro, GPUaaS)
  • AI impacts and considerations

Approaching Ops

  • Building an ops process
  • Building ops automation
  • Building reactive ops
  • Building proactive ops
  • Strategic operations planning for multicloud
  • AI operations (AIOps) for multicloud
  • Security operations (SecOps) for multicloud
  • Cloud operations (CloudOps) for multicloud
  • Case study - Multicloud operations

Approaching Dev

  • Building a dev process
  • Building automation
  • Continuous everything
  • Integration of dev and ops
  • Case study - Multicloud development

Approaching Governance

  • Resource governance and multicloud
  • Service governance and multicloud
  • Cost governance and multicloud
  • Security governance and multicloud
  • AI governance and multicloud
  • Case study - Multicloud governance

Approaching FinOps

  • What is multicloud FinOps
  • Multicloud cost usage monitoring
  • Multicloud cost usage reporting
  • Multicloud cost optimization
  • Case study - Multicloud FinOps

Putting Together a Multicloud Strategy

  • Logical multicloud planning
  • Physical multicloud planning
  • Building a multicloud strategy
  • Deployment planning
  • Bringing it all together

Conclusion

  • Final considerations for a successful multicloud deployment
  • Next steps
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