Cisco CCNP Security Core (SCOR) 350-701Cloud SecurityEasy
A security team is implementing a cloud security strategy. They are concerned about the risk of a single point of failure and want to ensure business continuity in case of a regional outage from their primary cloud provider. Which strategy addresses this concern by distributing workloads across different cloud providers?
- ACloud Sprawl
- BMulti-Cloud
- CCloud Migration
- DCloud Bursting
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Correct answer: B. Multi-Cloud
Multi-cloud strategy involves using multiple cloud providers to avoid vendor lock-in and enhance resilience against regional outages from a single provider. This improves business continuity.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Cloud sprawl refers to the uncontrolled proliferation of cloud instances, which is a security risk, not a strategy for resilience.
- C. Cloud migration is the process of moving applications to the cloud, not a strategy for distributing workloads across multiple providers for resilience.
- D. Cloud bursting is used for scaling workloads to public clouds during peak demand, not primarily for disaster recovery across providers.
Multi-Cloud Strategy
The practice of using multiple cloud computing services from different providers within a single architecture.
- Enhances resilience and avoids vendor lock-in.
- Distributes workloads to mitigate single-provider outages.
- Can increase management complexity.
Memory trick: Multi-Cloud means multiple providers, multiple options, multiple protections.