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Hybrid Cloud: Cloud Rolls Out To Data Centers in Different Hues

The term "hybrid cloud" in popular vocabulary represents a topology in which an organization's IT infrastructure is spread over public cloud(s) and on-premise data centers. An on-premise datacenter can include the enterprise's own data center or any colocation facility used by the enterprise. Hybrid has also lately been extended to include edge locations whether in a device or in a telecom provider's location. These variants are sometimes also referred to as "private cloud."

Although in a utopian world, the complete data center can be placed in the cloud, in reality, there are invariably some use cases that require workloads to be running on-premise. This is especially true of large enterprises that have considerable IT assets many of which need to continue to reside in the private cloud for various reasons. 

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Edge Computing: Public Cloud on 5G — the Grand Convergence

The closing months of 2019 saw a slew of services by AWS and Azure in their flagship events- Reinvent and Ignite. Notable among them were services leveraging 5G networks for running workloads in the 5G edge to provide ultra low latency. With 5G services set to be mainstream in this decade, this is a first of its kind collaboration model between the two principal parties in the ecosystem - The CSP (Communication Service Provider) and the Cloud Vendor(like AWS/Microsoft Azure). CSP has been referred to as Mobile network or mobile provider's network in this article for ease of understanding.

AWS has partnered with Telco service providers- Verizon, Vodafone, SK Enterprise, KDDI  to provide AWS Wavelength and is in the process of adding more partners. As announced, AWS Wavelength will enable developers to build applications that serve end-users with ultra-low latency over 5G network.