Exercise 3: Legitimate Reasons to Choose Hybrid Cloud — Possible Solution ==================================================================== Two legitimate reasons, drawn from the chapter's own list plus reasoning through them: 1. COMPLIANCE REQUIREMENTS. Some industries or jurisdictions require certain categories of data (financial records, health data, government data) to remain on infrastructure the organization directly controls, or within specific physical/legal boundaries that a shared public cloud environment may not satisfy on its own. A hybrid setup lets an organization keep those specific, regulated workloads on private infrastructure while still using public cloud for everything else that doesn't carry the same regulatory constraint -- getting the benefits of public cloud (Chapter 1's elasticity, cost model, speed) without violating a compliance requirement for the sensitive portion of their systems. 2. LEGACY SYSTEMS THAT AREN'T PRACTICAL TO MIGRATE. Some organizations run older systems -- built on outdated architectures, tightly coupled to specific on-prem hardware, or simply too business-critical and risky to migrate without extensive rework -- where a full migration to public cloud would be expensive, risky, or simply not worth the effort relative to the benefit. Hybrid cloud lets an organization modernize NEW workloads on public cloud while leaving the legacy system running where it already works, rather than forcing an all-or-nothing migration decision. (A third valid reason, also from the chapter: LATENCY-SENSITIVE WORKLOADS that need to run physically close to a specific facility or user base in a way that's better served by dedicated, local infrastructure than a public cloud region.) WHY THIS WORKS AS AN ANSWER ------------------------------ Each reason reflects the chapter's own framing that hybrid cloud is a DELIBERATE choice made for specific, real reasons -- not a sign of indecision or an incomplete migration. Both reasons given above show an organization getting the best of both models for a GENUINE constraint (a legal/regulatory boundary, or a practical migration-risk boundary) rather than simply failing to fully commit to one approach.