How do you manage network connectivity and latency across a multi-cloud SAP landscape?

Cross-provider network paths typically traverse the public internet unless deliberately engineered otherwise, introducing both latency and security exposure that a single-provider, single-region deployment doesn't have to contend with — a genuine architectural concern for any workload with tight request/response performance requirements spanning providers.

flowchart LR
    A[Provider A - S/4HANA] -->|Dedicated interconnect / VPN| B[Provider B - Extension]
    B -->|latency-sensitive calls| A

Mitigations typically include establishing dedicated, private network interconnects between providers (rather than routing over the public internet), carefully placing latency-sensitive components on the same side of any cross-provider boundary, and designing integration patterns (asynchronous messaging, caching) that tolerate higher latency for genuinely cross-provider calls rather than assuming synchronous, low-latency communication will always be available.