Everything You Want To Know About Anthos - Google's Hybrid And Multi-Cloud Platform

At the recently concluded Cloud Next conference, Google announced the general availability of Anthos, an enterprise hybrid, and multi-cloud platform.

Though there were over 100 announcements made at the event, Anthos stands out for the apparent reason. It marks Google’s official entry into the enterprise data center. It is one of the first official multi-cloud platforms from a mainstream public cloud provider.

From Sundar Pichai to Thomas Kurian to Urs Holzle, Anthos was talked about as the next generation technology. It is evident that the top leadership team at Google is proud of Anthos.

Anthos is different from other public cloud services. It’s not just a product but an umbrella brand for multiple services aligned with the themes of application modernization, cloud migration, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud management.

Despite the extensive coverage at Google Cloud Next and of course the general availability, the Anthos announcement was confusing. The documentation is sparse, and the service is not fully integrated with the self-service console. Except for the hybrid connectivity and multi-cloud application deployment, not much is known about this new technology from Google.

Here is an attempt to provide a big picture of Anthos.

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