How to build a successful multi cloud strategy

Today’s technology demands require robust, flexible infrastructure. That’s rarely found with a single provider.  

While the cloud offers performance, scalability and simple management, using a single provider comes with unique operational challenges. There’s vendor lock-in, the risk of total disruption from outages and the fact that some tools just work better in certain environments, limiting your agility. All of these challenges seriously undermine the cloud’s flexibility and performance promises. While hybrid cloud presents as one solution, an on-prem environment isn’t a practical choice for every organisation. That’s why many Australian organisations are turning to multi cloud strategies.  

 

What is multi cloud?  

Multi cloud is when an organisation uses more than one cloud provider to host its systems, data and applications. Instead of relying on a single cloud provider, it spreads your workloads across multiple cloud platforms. This means you can choose where to host your workloads based on where they’ll run best. For example, one hosts core systems, another supports internal applications and a third manages backups and disaster recovery. 

Think of it like not relying on a single utility company. You don’t get all your electricity, water and internet from one provider just because it’s convenient. You choose the best option for each to reduce risk and avoid being locked in. 

 

Multi cloud vs hybrid cloud: What’s the difference?  

While often confused or even used interchangeably, multi cloud is distinct from hybrid cloud. Multi cloud environments are entirely cloud-based and can leverage both public and private cloud services. Hybrid cloud, on the other hand, refers to IT environments that use a mix of cloud and on-prem (which includes colocation) infrastructure. If an environment is a mix of on-prem and multiple cloud environments, it’s considered hybrid multi cloud. 

While multi cloud lets you diversify your infrastructure, it has its own set of challenges that, if ignored, could create more problems than it solves. That’s why, before committing to a multi cloud strategy, it’s important to understand how to approach it the right way. In this guide, we’ll break down everything you need to know about multi cloud strategies: When they fit, what they include and how to implement one successfully. We’ll break down the security, architecture and management considerations key to making multi cloud work for you, not the other way around.  

 

Why multi cloud? Strategic drivers for multi cloud adoption

Organisations move to multi cloud for several pragmatic reasons.  

The first is risk. Relying on a single cloud provider creates dependency, limits negotiation power and creates a single point of failure. The second is performance. No cloud platform excels at everything, and certain workloads naturally perform better in specific environments. 

Cost predictability also plays a role. As cloud environments mature, many organisations discover their original consumption model no longer matches real-world usage. Multi cloud allows them to rebalance workloads based on where they make the most financial sense. 

Finally, there is governance. Regulatory obligations, data sovereignty concerns and internal risk policies increasingly demand greater control over where data resides and how it’s processed. A multi cloud approach lets you enforce these controls without sacrificing scale or agility.  

   

Cloud bursting: the practical entry point to multi cloud 

Most organisations start their multi cloud journey by necessity. As peak demand stretches existing infrastructure to its limits, they search for cost-efficient, practical cloud services to deal with overflow. This is called cloud bursting, and it’s the typical entry point for multi cloud infrastructure. It’s the most practical, low-friction entry point to multi cloud, introducing it in a controlled way without disrupting existing operations. 

In a cloud bursting model, workloads run in your primary environment under normal conditions. When demand exceeds that base capacity, additional workload temporarily “bursts” into another cloud environment. Once demand normalises, the workload scales back down. A multi cloud setup that leverages cloud bursting typical involves using private cloud as the primary environment, with public cloud providing the additional capacity when needed.  

This approach lets you tap into the benefits of multi cloud functionality without forcing wholesale change. It keeps existing systems stable while introducing additional capacity to keep your organisation agile.  

Cloud bursting is multi cloud in its most practical form: controlled, intentional and incremental. Think of it like expending your company. If you start getting irregular work in a new region, you wouldn’t open an office there straight away. Instead, you’d invest in a more flexible workspace, such as a coworking space or secure shared workspace, that allows you to scale your office footprint as needed.  

While often thought of as part of a multi cloud strategy, cloud bursting also enables hybrid cloud. Indeed, it’s often used to extend the capacity of on-prem environments.  

  

The benefits of cloud bursting 

Cloud bursting delivers immediate, tangible value without architectural upheaval. 

• Cost-efficiency: Cloud bursting it reduces overprovisioning, eliminating the additional costs that come with it. Instead of building permanent infrastructure to cope with rare peak events, you can keep your main environment for typical operations, only relying on additional capacity when demand spikes. 
• Improves performance during critical periods: With cloud bursting, systems remain responsive during high-traffic events, seasonal surges or unexpected growth without degrading user experience. 
• Minimises risk:  With cloud bursting, your organisation gets operational exposure to public cloud platforms while maintaining the security, compliance and control of your private environment.  
• Lays the foundation for a broader multi cloud strategy: There are many benefits to multi cloud. But realising them depends on getting it right. Cloud bursting helps you move through the initial starting steps in a low-risk manner. Once some workloads are successfully operating in new environments, you’ll have the playbook, and the confidence, to roll out a broader multi cloud strategy and truly optimise your workloads. 

For most organisations, cloud bursting shifts multi cloud from a theoretical strategy to an operational reality. 

 

When to use cloud bursting

Simply put, cloud bursting is the ideal solution for irregular spikes in system traffic, predictable or otherwise.  

For example, retail companies might use it to handle web traffic during high-volume sales events, such as boxing day or the end of financial year sale. News and media companies may use it to handle breaking news or live streaming events.  

Cloud bursting also helps non-profit organisations better serve their community. For example, it empowers healthcare organisations to access additional capacity in case of major public health incidents or events.

When a major outbreak or community alert occurs, appointment systems, patient portals and telehealth platforms can experience immediate spikes in access. Cloud bursting ensures systems remain responsive when people need them most, without forcing the organisation to overspend on idle capacity year-round. 

Another example, drawn from an AWS case study, shows how a research institution leveraged cloud bursting to remain agile in the face of unpredictability. By nature, research traffic is variable. You often don’t know when the next breakthrough will come, but when it does, it often requires rapid, compute-intensive analysis.  

But as a non-profit institution that exists for the public good, provisioning permanent IT infrastructure that covers rare peak loads, on top of regular operations, is not an option. This left them with an uncomfortable choice: delay the project and slow down progress or scale back analysis and risk missing important insights.  

Cloud bursting offered a better option that didn’t require compromise. By extending into AWS during peak demand, the institution was able to handle sudden traffic spikes without disrupting its core operations. Day-to-day work continued as normal in the private environment, while intensive workloads were processed in the public cloud when needed. 

While cloud bursting is often associated with multi cloud strategies, it also plays a key role in hybrid cloud environments. In many cases, it’s used to temporarily extend the capacity of on-prem infrastructure when demand exceeds what local systems can handle. So, if your organisation prefers to keep workloads on-prem, cloud bursting gives you the flexibility to scale beyond those local limits without compromising performance. 

 

Multi cloud security: protecting data across multiple cloud providers 

Now for the elephant in the room. While multi cloud delivers flexibility, it also introduces new challenges. 

Chief among them is security. It’s hard enough keeping a single cloud environment secure. Securing multiple platforms is an entirely new discipline. And it’s one most technology teams (and their budgets) aren’t ready to take on. Multi cloud security introduces complexity as each platform operates under its own rules, controls and responsibility models. Without a deliberate security strategy, this fragmentation creates blind spots that increase your organisation’s exposure to cyber threats. 

   

Why multi cloud security is complex 

Different security models across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud: 

Each cloud provider defines security differently. Each platform uses distinct terminology, native tools, control mechanisms and configuration standards. A policy that works in Azure does not translate directly to AWS or GCP. This means you’ll have to understand and manage several security frameworks at once, increasing the likelihood of misconfiguration and uneven protection. 

 

Identity and access management across multiple clouds 

Users, roles and permissions behave differently across platforms. Without a centralised identity strategy, organisations often end up with fragmented access controls, duplicated accounts and inconsistent privilege management. Over-permissioned users and lingering credentials become common risk points, especially as users move between systems and clouds. 

 

Data sovereignty and compliance across providers 

Multi cloud environments complicate compliance. Data may move between platforms that operate across different regions, availability zones and geographic jurisdictions. When each cloud has its own data handling model, keeping data within approved locations while meeting regulatory requirements such as privacy laws, industry standards and contractual obligations becomes significantly harder. 

  

Consistent policy enforcement challenges 

Security policies are only effective if they are applied uniformly. In multi cloud environments, enforcing consistent rules around encryption, access, monitoring and configuration is difficult without coordinated governance. Without this, policy gaps appear in platforms as teams apply policies meant for one cloud platform to another.  

Many organisations think multi cloud equals multiple security policies. Don’t fall into this trap. The key to effective multi cloud security is treating your cloud infrastructure as a single environment and managing it as a single, integrated security ecosystem.  

But if multi cloud is the right solution for your organisation, additional security considerations shouldn’t stop you in your tracks. To avoid the headache and streamline security across multiple cloud platforms, these are the considerations you’ll need to make. 

  

Key multi cloud security challenges 

Challenge 1: Identity management 

Managing identity across multiple cloud platforms is one of the most critical and complex elements of multi cloud security. Each provider has its own identity framework, access structures and permission models. Across multiple platforms, you’ll quickly end up with siloed user accounts, duplicated credentials and inconsistent access controls. 

Challenge 2: Data protection across providers  

Multi cloud introduces new risks around how data moves, where it lives and how it is protected in transit and at rest. 

As data moves between cloud environments, encryption must be enforced consistently. Securing cloud-to-cloud connectivity requires controlled network architecture, encrypted tunnels and strict access validation to prevent exposure during transfer. Without this, inter-cloud data movement becomes an invisible vulnerability. 

Tracking data residency across multiple clouds is another major challenge. Different providers operate across different geographic regions. So, if it’s not tightly governed, data can be replicated or cached in unexpected locations. For Australian organisations, this has direct implications for data sovereignty and regulatory compliance. 

Australian data sovereignty enforcement requires clear visibility into where sensitive data is stored, processed and backed up. In a fragmented multi cloud environment, this visibility is often assumed rather than proven, which is where compliance risk can escalate. 

  

Challenge 3: compliance consistency 

Multi cloud environments complicate compliance obligations because each provider generates security controls, logs and reporting in different ways. 

For example, under APRA CPS 234, APRA-regulated organisations must demonstrate operational resilience and effective security controls across their entire technology environment. This becomes significantly harder when systems are spread across multiple cloud platforms with differing governance models. 

The Australian Privacy Act and its associated obligations require consistent protection of personal information regardless of where it is hosted. In a multi cloud environment, this means ensuring privacy controls are applied uniformly across all providers, not just the primary one. 

Audit trail consolidation is another challenge. Logs and event data generated by multiple cloud platforms must be aggregated into a unified view to support forensic analysis, compliance reporting and regulatory audits. 

Data breach notification obligations under the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme also demand accurate, timely incident insight. Without centralised visibility, you may struggle to assess impact windows, identify affected data sets and meet mandatory reporting timelines. 

  

Challenge 4: unified security monitoring 

Security monitoring across multiple cloud platforms requires a coordinated approach that goes beyond native tools. 

SIEM platforms must ingest and correlate data from multiple cloud platforms to provide a single, coherent view of threats. Without this centralisation, security teams are forced to monitor each environment separately, increasing response times and reducing contextual awareness. 

Threat detection must operate horizontally across platforms, identifying patterns that span environments rather than treating each cloud as an isolated zone. Attackers do not respect cloud boundaries. Monitoring cannot either. 

Incident response coordination is equally critical. Response workflows must be designed to operate across environments with clear escalation paths, defined roles and consistent remediation processes. In a fragmented setup, incidents become harder to contain and easier to mismanage. 

 

The solution: Cloud federation 

Cloud federation provides the foundation for managing multi cloud security at scale. It creates a unified, platform-agnostic security framework, so security controls can be applied consistently across all cloud environments. It doesn’t remove complexity, but it brings structure to it. And that structure is what makes multi cloud viable from a security perspective. 

 

Federated identity management 

Federated identity lets your organisation implement single sign-on across all cloud platforms through a central identity provider. Users authenticate once and access resources across environments without duplicated credentials or inconsistent access controls. 

 

Federated data protection 

Cloud federation supports consistent data protection across providers by aligning encryption, access and classification standards. It improves visibility into where data lives and how it moves, allowing your organisation to enforce Australian data sovereignty requirements with clarity and control. 

 

Federated compliance control 

Federation lets you manage compliance as a single framework, not three separate ones. Security policies, governance and reporting can be aligned to obligations such as APRA CPS 234 and the Privacy Act across all providers, strengthening audit defensibility and reducing compliance risk. 

 

Federated security visibility 

Cloud federation underpins unified monitoring by enabling consistent security context across environments. This allows SIEM and threat detection platforms to correlate activity across clouds, providing clearer insight, faster detection and streamlined incident response. 

The challenge of multi cloud security isn’t the technology. It’s the coordination.  Cloud federation is what turns multi cloud from scattered systems into a unified, secure foundation. 

 

Multi cloud security best practices 

Implement federated identity

The effectiveness of federated identity depends on how consistently it is implemented and governed. A unified identity model must be designed around central control, standardised policies and continuous oversight — not just convenience. 

Platforms such as Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory), Okta or Ping Identity should be configured as the authoritative identity source across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, ensuring all authentication and access decisions flow through a single control plane. 

To remain effective, federated identity must enforce: 

• Consistent multi-factor authentication across all clouds. 
• Uniform role definitions and access policies. 
• Regular access reviews and privilege audits. 
• Automated deprovisioning and user lifecycle management.

Without this discipline, federation risks becoming a superficial link between platforms rather than a true security control layer. 

  

Enforce data sovereignty   

Multi cloud environments must be governed by strict data localisation and sovereignty controls, particularly for Australian organisations operating under regulatory oversight. 

This includes enforcing geographic restrictions on where sensitive data can be stored, processed and replicated across cloud platforms. Automated compliance mechanisms should continuously validate that data remains within approved Australian jurisdictions and does not drift into unauthorised regions. 

Regular audits are essential to confirm the data’s location, backup placement and replication pathways. These audits provide evidence for regulators and reduce the risk of silent non-compliance caused by misconfigured storage policies or replication processes. 

   

Security policy as code 

Consistency is the key to secure multi cloud environments. Security policy as code ensures that controls are defined, deployed and enforced programmatically across all platforms. 

By embedding security into Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks, you can apply the same baseline configurations for encryption, access control, network segmentation and monitoring regardless of provider. This removes variation and reduces the risk of manual errors. 

Automated compliance validation ensures that configurations remain aligned with security standards in real time, not just at audit intervals. Continuous monitoring across multi cloud environments provides immediate visibility into policy drift or control failures before they become material risk.  

Ultimately, automation is how you turn security from reactive to systemic. 

 

Australian compliance requirements 

Multi cloud security in Australia isn’t one-size-fits-all. Some requirements apply to everyone. Others only apply to specific sectors. 

The ACSC Essential Eight provides a baseline cyber security framework that all organisations should aim to follow, regardless of industry. In a multi cloud environment, the key is consistency. Controls like application whitelisting, patching and privilege restriction should behave the same way across every cloud provider.  

The Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) scheme, which applies broadly to organisations covered by the Australian Privacy Act, requires clear processes for detecting, assessing and reporting data breaches. In multi cloud environments, this means incident detection and response must function seamlessly across all platforms, not just the primary one. 

For government workloads, security must be assessed under the IRAP framework. This applies specifically to federal and state agencies (and organisations handling government data) and ensures environments meet strict standards for classified and sensitive information. 

 

These requirements are specific to that sector and should be treated accordingly within multi cloud design and governance. 

While these are sector-specific frameworks, their impact extends beyond the industries they directly govern. Aligning your organisation with them puts you in a stronger position to do business with those sectors and meet their expectations with confidence. There’s a reason these industries are so highly regulated. The enhanced security and operational resilience they demand exist to protect customer trust in critical industries. Your customers deserve the same level of trust and protection, no matter what your infrastructure looks like behind the scenes. 

At its core, multi cloud security best practice comes down to consistency. Every control should behave the same way, everywhere. Because when complexity increases risk, consistency becomes your most powerful security tool. 

 

Multi cloud architecture: connectivity and integration patterns 

The success of any multi cloud strategy comes down to how your cloud platforms connect.  

Strong connectivity is a growth engine that assures the highest level of performance and control. On the other hand, weak connections create latency, security gaps and cause costs to blow out. These are the core architecture patterns that make multi cloud work in practice. 

  

Cloud gateway architecture 

Think of the security team at a busy venue, like a restaurant, bar or night club. They have visibility and control of who goes in and out. In doing so, they enforce the venue’s policies, such as dress code, prioritising existing bookings and behavioural standards. Now, imagine what would happen if they walked out on the job. The venue would overflow, and staff would be left to deal with chaos that should have been checked at the door.  

A cloud gateway does the same thing for a multi cloud IT environment. It manages how traffic moves between your environment. It acts as the controlled entry and exit layer that governs how data flows from one cloud platform to another. 

Unlike traditional network devices that simply pass traffic through, a cloud gateway enforces policy. It applies security controls, validates compliance requirements and ensures data is handled appropriately before entering any cloud environment. It also supports centralised logging and visibility across cloud environments, so teams can easily monitor traffic flows.   

Typical cloud gateway capabilities include: Traffic routing to multiple clouds, integrated security enforcement such as firewall, DLP and encryption, network optimisation through compression or WAN optimisation and data sovereignty checkpoints to ensure regional compliance.  

A cloud gateway only works if it’s properly designed. It needs to scale, stay online and perform under pressure. If it fails, your multi cloud environment effectively fails with it.  

Cost must be weighed carefully, not just against today’s budget, but against long-term performance and efficiency.   

In practice, the cloud gateway becomes a strategic control point where chaos stops and control begins. A well-designed cloud gateway will your entire multi cloud environment. 

  

Cloud interconnect and cloud-to-cloud connectivity 

Cloud interconnect is a private, dedicated connection between your infrastructure and cloud platforms, removing reliance on the public internet. This gives you a controlled and dependable pathway for moving data between environments. 

Compared to standard internet connectivity, it provides more consistent performance and reduces exposure to network congestion and unpredictable routing. This makes it better suited for workloads that need stable, reliable connections across a multi cloud setup. 

There are two primary cloud interconnect patterns. 

On-premises to multi cloud

This pattern connects your Australian data centres directly into AWS, Azure and Google Cloud through private network fabrics such as Megaport Cloud Router or Equinix Cloud Exchange in Sydney and Melbourne. It enables on-prem systems to operate as an extension of your cloud environments, supporting scenarios where legacy, regulated or performance-sensitive workloads must remain housed in physical infrastructure while integrating with cloud services.  

Cloud to cloud connectivity 

This pattern enables direct communication between cloud providers themselves, such as AWS to Azure or GCP to AWS. It’s used when applications, data sets or services need to operate across platforms while remaining logically interconnected. Common scenarios include shared data environments, distributed application architectures and coordinated service delivery across multiple cloud ecosystems. 

  

When should you use cloud interconnect? 

Cloud interconnect makes sense when standard internet connectivity stops being practical, as it does in the following situations:  

• Traffic between environments starts to become predictable, heavy or operationally critical. Typically, this happens when data transfer regularly exceeds 1TB per month.  
• Where applications need consistently low latency (typically below 10ms) 
• Security policies restrict internet-based traffic 
• Ongoing data movement needs to be more tightly controlled from a cost and/or governance perspective. 

Australian interconnect providers include: 

• Megaport with presence in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth. 
• Equinix Cloud Exchange across major metro locations. 
• NEXTDC AXON, which enables direct cloud provider connections. 
• Telstra enterprise cloud connectivity services. 
• Interactive. 

Interactive delivers enterprise-grade cloud interconnect solutions through our highly connected, carrier-neutral data centres. We enable direct, secure, and high-performance connectivity to leading cloud providers and interconnect ecosystems, supporting multi cloud architectures and latency-sensitive workloads. Our approach combines flexible cross-connect options, strategic partnerships and robust network design to help Australian organisations optimise the cost, security and performance of a their multi cloud infrastructure.  

  

Cloud orchestration and federation

Cloud orchestration is the automation layer that coordinates how workloads are deployed and operated across multiple cloud providers. Without orchestration, multi cloud environments become fragmented and operationally inefficient. 

Infrastructure-as-Code is central to this approach. Tools like Terraform and Pulumi allow you to define, deploy and govern infrastructure consistently across every cloud platform. Kubernetes supports container orchestration across environments, while Ansible manages configuration standardisation and policy enforcement. 

Orchestration becomes essential when environments exceed ten workloads across multiple providers or when deployment complexity begins impacting performance, reliability or compliance. 

Cloud federation allows for unified management across these environments. Federated cloud services allow identity, networking and storage to be managed as part of a cohesive system rather than isolated platforms. This creates a “single pane of glass” for control, monitoring and policy application. 

Policy federation ensures security standards and operational rules are enforced consistently across all providers, while federated cloud architectures enable coordinated governance without sacrificing platform flexibility. 

Cloud orchestration and federation are what turn multi cloud from infrastructure sprawl into structured architecture. 

  

Multi cloud management: platforms and cost optimisation

Multi cloud environments introduce flexibility, but they also increase operational complexity. Each cloud provider operates its own console, reporting structure and cost model. Without unified oversight, visibility fractures and control weakens. Effective multi cloud management brings clarity, consistency and financial discipline across environments that weren’t designed to work as one. 

   

Why multi cloud management is challenging

AWS, Azure and Google Cloud each operate separate management consoles, monitoring tools and billing systems. This fragmentation makes it difficult to gain a single view of usage, performance and cost. There is also the need for unified visibility and control. Without it, decision-making becomes reactive, governance weakens and you miss opportunities for optimisation. Cost tracking compounds the issue. Usage-based billing across multiple providers makes it difficult to understand true spend patterns and allocate costs accurately across business units. 

  

Cloud management platform essentials 

Unified cost management: A modern multi cloud management platform delivers pricing visibility across all providers, consolidates billing and facilitates accurate cost allocation. It supports cross-cloud comparison so you can shift resources can be shifted based on observed efficiency, not vibes or vendor preference. Reserved capacity recommendations help reduce long-term spend by aligning usage with commitment models. 

Resource governance: Strong platforms enforce consistent policy across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Automated compliance monitoring supports Australian regulatory obligations such as APRA CPS 234 (for APRA-regulated organisations) and Privacy Act requirements. Security posture is assessed holistically, not per platform, and data residency is tracked to ensure sovereignty and compliance is continuously maintained. 

Performance monitoring: Unified dashboards provide real-time insight into performance across all cloud environments. Application performance monitoring, SLA tracking and capacity planning become centralised processes rather than fragmented toolsets. 

  

Cloud broker services: How they help, and when you should use them. 

Some large enterprises use cloud broker services to aggregate multiple providers, manage contracts and provide unified billing. However, most Australian organisations find dedicated cloud management platforms sufficient without adding another vendor layer. Cloud brokers typically suit only organisations managing more than fifty cloud accounts with complex multi-vendor contract structures. 

  

Multi cloud provider selection for Australian organisations

When it’s time to select providers, don’t fall into the “everything everywhere” trap. Instead, adopt a best-of-breed approach. Each platform excels under different conditions. Don’t make the mistake of treating them as interchangable. Match workload with the provider most capable of supporting it, based on performance, compliance, integration and cost. 

 

Public cloud provider selection for multi cloud

Rather than assigning platforms fixed roles, mature multi cloud design looks at how the workload behaves. 

AWS is commonly selected for environments that require high flexibility, broad service coverage and rapid scalability. It’s particularly useful where architecture needs to evolve quickly or support complex digital platforms. 

Azure is often favoured in organisations deeply integrated into the Microsoft ecosystem. Its identity, licensing, governance and operational alignment with Microsoft technologies reduces friction and administrative overhead. 

Google Cloud is typically chosen where advanced analytics, data processing or machine learning capabilities are central to the workload, particularly when data modelling and insight generation are core outcomes. 

 

Interactive Private Cloud in a multi cloud strategy

Interactive’s Private Cloud is an Australian-owned cloud service built for performance and control. It supports demanding workloads (such as AI) without compromising the security, governance and predictability expected of owned infrastructure. For Australian organisations, it provides a stable environment where core systems can operate with clear compliance alignment and a reinforced security posture. Within a multi cloud strategy, private cloud can serve as your base for core systems, while public cloud platforms are used for innovation and provide additional burst capacity. 

  

Starting your multi cloud journey

When starting multi cloud, it’s best not to go all in. Begin with cloud bursting before committing to full multi cloud architecture. Use non-critical workloads to validate performance, security and operational processes across providers. That way, you can build a solid business case without introducing unnecessary risk. 

Establish governance, monitoring and access control frameworks early. These guardrails prevent complexity from compounding as your environment scales. At the same time, build cross-provider capability within your team to reduce dependency on any single platform or specialist. 

When implemented effectively, multi cloud enhances capability, control and resilience. Done poorly, it magnifies risk and operational burden. The difference comes down to planning and discipline.  

  

Building your multi cloud strategy with Australian expertise

Choosing the right multi cloud providers means aligning workloads to capability while meeting Australian compliance obligations. Effective control and robust security is key to ensuring it all comes together. This is where experience matters. 

As a leading cloud services provider, an accredited expert in multiple public clouds and the owner of Australia’s largest private cloud platform, we know what it takes to select the right combination of capabilities and features to meet your multi cloud needs. 

Interactive brings four decades of IT infrastructure expertise to multi cloud implementations. Our certified specialists across AWS and Azure design cloud gateway architectures, implement secure cloud interconnects and help you optimise costs while ensuring Australian data sovereignty. For APRA-regulated entities, this also includes alignment with APRA CPS 234 requirements. 

To find out more or see how we can help you, get in touch with our team.  

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