What cloud model combines two or more clouds that remain unique entities but are bound together to provide the benefits of multiple deployment models?

• A. Multi Cloud
• B. Community Cloud
• C. Hybrid Cloud
• D. Public Cloud

Answer: (C)

Hybrid cloud is when two or more clouds remain as separate entities but are connected and managed together to give you the advantages of different deployment models. This setup usually pairs a private cloud with one or more public clouds, letting workloads and data move between environments as needed while preserving each cloud’s distinct controls and boundaries. The result is the flexibility to keep sensitive tasks in a private environment and scale with a public one, all under a unified management approach.

This differs from a pure public cloud, which relies on a single cloud provider for most resources, and from multi-cloud, which uses multiple clouds without necessarily binding them together or coordinating workload placement and data flow across environments.