FEATURE how tightly coupled many organisations have become to individual hyperscalers. Even brief disruptions cascade into downtime and business interruptions. Consolidating entirely on one platform may deliver short-term speed, but over time, it creates a structural single point of failure.
The challenge is not cloud adoption itself. Rather, the region’ s deepening reliance on cloud means resilience must be treated as a first-order design principle.
Multi-cloud as an emergent response
For many organisations, multi-cloud is becoming a logical progression. At its core, multi-cloud means distributing applications or workloads across more than one cloud provider to reduce concentration risk. It provides flexibility to place workloads where they best fit – whether for performance, regulation, cost, or availability. Its
More than half of APAC organisations reported revenue losses exceeding US $ 5 million in the past year due to outages or poor network performance.
appeal is growing as AI workloads proliferate, often with unique compute, latency, or datagovernance considerations.
However, multi-cloud should not be portrayed as frictionless. Its strength lies in diversification, but that strength comes with complexity that teams must approach realistically.
Acknowledging complexities
Multi-cloud introduces several technical challenges that cannot be glossed over.
Routing traffic intelligently across providers requires balancing availability, latency and workload behaviour. Maintaining durable, consistent data across environments means reconciling differences in storage models, networking constructs and resilience guarantees. And each cloud provider has its own operational
Rachel Ler, Area Vice President of Asia at Fastly www. intelligentcio. com
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