# A Survey and Comparative Study on Multi-Cloud Architectures: Emerging Issues And Challenges For Cloud Federation

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12831 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.12831/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 29 Aug 2021.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

Multi-cloud concept has broaden the world of cloud computing and has become a buzzword today. The word Multi-cloud envisions utilization of services from multiple heterogeneous cloud providers via a single architecture at customer premises. Though cloud computing has many issues and offers open research challenges, still the academics and industrial research has paved a pathway for multi-cloud environment. The concept of multi-cloud is in maturing phase, and many research projects are in progress to provide a multi-cloud architecture which is successfully enabled in all the respects like easy configuration, security, management etc. In this paper, concepts, challenges, requirement and future directions for multi-cloud environment are discussed. A survey of existing approaches and solutions provided by different multi-cloud architectures is entailed along with analysis of the pros and cons of different architectures while comparing the same.