What is a multi-cloud architecture strategy in the context of SAP landscapes?

A multi-cloud strategy deliberately distributes an SAP landscape's workloads across more than one hyperscaler (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) or combines a hyperscaler with SAP's own cloud infrastructure (RISE with SAP), rather than committing the entire estate to a single provider. The core system might run on one provider while specific extensions, analytics, or disaster recovery capacity run on another.

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    A[S/4HANA Core - Hyperscaler A] --> D[Integration layer / BTP]
    B[Analytics workload - Hyperscaler B] --> D
    C[DR / backup capacity - Hyperscaler C] --> D

At the senior/architect level, the decision isn't just technical — it's a deliberate trade-off between the operational simplicity of one provider versus resilience, negotiating leverage, and workload-specific optimization gained by spreading across several, weighed against the real complexity that spreading introduces.

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