On-Premise
(no cloud)
On-Premise
(no cloud)
- Requires purchase of network and server equipment
- Requires purchase of internet connectivity for computing resources
- Requires staff skilled in managing infrastructure
- Susceptible to local weather disasters
- Lower uptime possible
- Difficult to secure
- Difficult to scale up and down
Hybrid
(on-premises & cloud)
Hybrid
(on-premises & cloud)
- Good first step for migrating from on-premises
to the cloud - Good option for backups and disaster recovery if locked into on-premises capital
- Provides additional resiliency against on-premises outages
- Extends capabilities to scale up and down more easily
Cloud Single-Region Cloud Single-Region
- Does not require managing underlying networking infrastructure
- Uptime not impacted by local weather disasters
- Easier to scale up and down
- Best option for SaaS business startups
Cloud Multi-Region Cloud Multi-Region
- Does not require managing underlying networking infrastructure
- Uptime not impacted by local weather disasters
- Easier to scale up and down
- Best option for SaaS business startups
- Higher uptime possible
- Not impacted by single cloud region temporary outage
- Requires more sophisticated application architecture to leverage multi-region
- Enables global deployments
Cloud Multi-Cloud Provider Cloud Multi-Cloud Provider
- Does not require managing underlying networking infrastructure
- Uptime not impacted by local weather disasters
- Easier to scale up and down
- Best option for SaaS business startups
- Higher uptime possible
- Not impacted by single cloud region temporary outage
- Requires more sophisticated application architecture to leverage multi-region
- Enables global deployments
- Provides maximum uptime possible
- Not impacted by a single cloud provider outage
- Reduces risk of relying too much on single cloud provider


