A regional consortium runs workloads across two cloud providers so a single vendor outage does not stop all citizen services. Which resilience approach does that describe?
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Short Explanation
Multicloud is not putting all eggs in one vendor’s basket—you deliberately split work across providers. Hybrid can mean on-prem plus one cloud; multicloud specifically spreads across clouds. When the goal is surviving a vendor outage, that second provider matters.
Full Explanation
Multicloud distribution places workloads across more than one public cloud provider so a single vendor outage or commercial failure does not stop all citizen services. A regional consortium that deliberately runs across two providers is implementing multicloud resilience and reducing lock-in concentration risk. Single-cloud vertical scaling of one larger virtual machine only increases capacity inside one provider and does not protect against that provider’s regional or control-plane outage. Tape-only backups stored in the same provider region as production fail both cross-provider diversity and timely failover. Hybrid connectivity that exclusively means on-premises plus one provider is hybrid, not multicloud across two public clouds. Exam caveat: hybrid and multicloud are related but not interchangeable—hybrid emphasizes private/on-premises plus cloud; multicloud emphasizes multiple public providers. Operational check: identify which citizen services can run actively-active or hot-standby on a second provider, standardize identity and observability across clouds, rehearse failover of DNS and data sync, and avoid assuming backups in one provider automatically cover a vendor-wide incident.