Now, to answer the question that we were asking in this chapter, the simplest definition of the hybrid cloud is that we can work with any combination of two or more of these different demographics:
The most widely accepted definition is that, the hybrid cloud is an environment comprising of a Private Cloud component (On-Premise) and a Public Cloud Component (Third party).
In this chapter, we took a look at the different ways clouds were organized, their characteristics, and the use cases.
In the remainder of this book, we will learn to architect hybrid clouds in a variety of different ways such as using a cloud management platform, using containers, and so on. For most of the book, we will be using AWS as the public cloud and OpenStack as our private cloud. We will also look at different concepts of architecting these components and samples for OpenStack and AWS.