Optimizing hybrid and multi-cloud architectures for real-time data streaming and analytics: Strategies for scalability and integration

Abstract

The adoption of artificial intelligence with multi-cloud is one useful area that businesses and organizations should explore mainly due to its scalability, flexibility, and efficiency. As a result, this integration must come with several pulls that have to be dealt with to realize proper implementation. This paper seeks to identify the major issues of implementing AI and coming up with the best solutions in multi-cloud infrastructures. Firstly, compatibility problems appear as a fundamental issue in the process of implementing AI across more than one cloud. Every cloud provider uses different APIs, formats for data, and possibilities to configure the infrastructure that hinders data and services integration. To counter this, there is a need to have the compliance that comes in terms of standard development through the use of data formats, APIs, and interoperability frameworks. Furthermore, features such as Docker and Kubernetes make the work with ports lighter and let the AI components smoothly interconnect regardless of the used cloud environment. Secondly, data management as well as the governance of big data serve up significant challenges for multi-cloud AI implementation. Legal requirements concerning data privacy, global compliance standards, as well as data sovereignty concerns call for strong governance of cloud data to ensure they are accurate, secure, as well as compliant in the required cloud settings. These risks must be addressed, nonetheless, to build trust in the multi-cloud AI utilization; in this regard, robust data management, encompassing data encryption, access privileges, as well as data auditing, can be implemented in organizational settings. In addition, the optimization of performance is another significant issue to consider as AI computational tasks may be executed across different cloud environments resulting in increased throughput time and network congestion and contention. Through auto-scaling and workload scheduling algorithms used in orchestration, resources can be effectively allocated and loaded in the heterogeneous cloud infrastructures in the most efficient and optimum way thus reducing operational costs. The other is achieving robustness and dependability of multi-cloud AI applications. It is an immutable fact that one can always imagine a situation when clouds, networks, or hardware will fail; therefore, specific measures should be taken to ensure the availability and reliability of the system. The TCP/IP model also classes the means used for implementing redundant mechanisms, data replication strategies and disaster recovery protocols in different geographically situated cloud regions that improve the dependable computing system’s resources.