Interoperability Standards for Multi-cloud Environment

As cloud computing has become a dominant model for distributed computing, with widespread adoption across industries, multi-cloud has been proposed to mitigate various challenges due to the heterogeneity of various cloud providers such as security, privacy, trust, cost of cloud tenants, vendor lock-in etc. The idea of multi-cloud computing has broadened the field of cloud computing and is a popular term in academia and industry.

Broadly three main areas are being explored for multi-cloud computing at present.