Organizations in every sector have started to recognize the promise of cloud computing, but the thought of treating the cloud as a service is a debatable topic for industry experts. According to them, what is missing is a greater sense of standardization in the cloud industry. If you consider other utilities, such as providers of internet, electricity, and mobile network services, you have the option of switching providers and evaluating them on a cost and quality basis. But it’s still a distant reality to move between cloud providers and compare their services.
Theoretically, cloud tools have a clean slate to compare their performance, cost, and have the option of easily transferring workload to another tool as needed. But technically, this is always a problem.
While the majority of cloud providers offer the same product, each product has significant variations. Each provides a different interface and method of communicating with the software, for example. The problem occurs due to the varying APIs of each provider when transferring workloads. This makes obtaining a utility-like status difficult and hard.
As compared to another utility like energy, the process of transition is an administrative act. One has to fill a couple of forms and the transition will visibly take place without any power shortage. This smooth transition has become an important method for many people to find the best offers and providers.
Speaking of the cloud, its orchestration makes it as convenient to switch cloud providers as to switch electricity providers. The platform for cloud orchestration (CO) serves as an interpreter between the infrastructure and a specific cloud. There is an abstraction layer within the cloud orchestration, which interacts with the infrastructure. A cloud tool guarantees that the correspondence is valid. A cloud tool ensures that the contact is translated into the language of the cloud provider specified.
Another obstacle that comes in the way is the fact that cloud providers launch many new services every year while third-party cloud orchestration platforms enable organizations to build in-house solutions. This makes management and maintenance more difficult.
Because of hyper-scalers providing virtualization services in their clouds, businesses are also facing cloud migration. In the cloud, many companies only run a single application and not the whole virtualization software. Although this strategy simplifies migration, it does not allow an enterprise to equate it with a public cloud that results in a deeper lock-in of the provider.
On a positive note, this strategy provides the value of operating within an environment that has been built for AWS native virtualization, making it incredibly difficult to move an organization from on-site to the cloud and vice versa or from cloud to cloud.
A higher degree of IT orchestration that can provide smoother migration processes is required to make things simpler. There are also other options, in addition to cloud orchestration frameworks, that can increase the speed of workload changes between clouds. Independent containers, for example, may play a role as the software’s dependence remains in the container. As variations in the level of infrastructure will not cause issues, this will promote smooth migration.
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