Architecting Resilient Hybrid Multi-Cloud Infrastructures: A Strategic Framework for Enterprise IT
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https://doi.org/10.63397/ISCSITR-IJCSE_2025_06_04_001Keywords:
IT, Multi-Cloud, Hybrid, Infrastructure, ResilienceAbstract
This paper introduces a strategic guideline in building resilient hybrid multi-cloud systems that can boost the enterprise agility, security, and scalability. This paper presents a case study on the platform engineering, Zero Trust security frameworks, and AI-orchestrated frameworks and how they can be evaluated and compared in terms of real-world implementation metrics like downtimes, cost of workloads, and configuration drifts. The outcomes prove that hybrid multi-cloud solutions can enhance system recovery, cost and compliance to a significant degree. Besides, the employment of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), data protection systems, and single layers of observability are also added to operational continuity. These results lead to the development of the best practices of creating adaptive, fault-tolerant, and secure multi-cloud enterprise architectures.
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