What is the Distributed Cloud?
Distributed cloud is a business model that extends a public cloud provider’s infrastructure and services to geographically distributed satellite locations, each with its own processing capabilities.
Customers can consume services from multiple satellites and manage them through one dashboard as if they were a private cloud. The operations and governance of satellite locations (which may also be referred to hubs, sub-stations or mini-clouds) remain the responsibility of the originating public cloud provider.
Distributed cloud addresses the needs of customers whose applications require location-based services to reduce latency and/or meet compliance regulations. It is supported by decentralized networking strategies such as Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and is expected to help drive the growth of edge computing as a business strategy.