Hosted or managed cloud
Managed services reduce infrastructure work and can improve speed to market. They are often appropriate when the provider's controls, regions, contractual terms and service levels meet business requirements. Evaluate data export, portability, identity integration and outage procedures.
Private deployment
Private infrastructure can provide stronger control over network boundaries, data location and operational dependencies. It also transfers responsibility for patching, backups, monitoring, capacity, incident response and disaster recovery to the organization or its service partner.
Hybrid architecture
Hybrid models place components where they make the most sense—for example, managed application services with private data systems, or cloud control planes with customer-hosted workloads. The integration and identity boundaries must be deliberately designed.
Compare the full operating cost
Include compute, storage, network egress, licences, support, security tooling, backups, observability, engineering time and recovery capability. Model normal demand and peak demand, and test the cost of moving data or changing providers.
Make the decision reversible
Document data flows, dependencies, deployment automation, backup formats, recovery objectives and exit procedures. A good architecture makes the trade-offs explicit and avoids unnecessary lock-in.
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