Businesses are using the cloud like never before. But it’s very rarely one-business-one-cloud. It is instead commonplace for organizations to deploy a mix of services from different cloud providers, to host with one provider in multiple regions and to mix onsite clouds with offsite clouds.
And this raises the challenge of how to safely and securely connect different cloud environments. This whitepaper explores some of the issues and presents the Alibaba Cloud Express Connect network service, which provides a fast, stable, secure and private or dedicated network communication between different cloud environments. This network service includes VPC intranet intercommunication and dedicated leased line connections across regions and between users.