The way public clouds and private clouds work as part of a hybrid cloud are no different than how standalone public clouds or private clouds work:
- A local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN), virtual private network (VPN), and/or application programming interfaces (APIs) connect multiple computers together.
- Virtualization, containers, or software-defined storage abstract resources, which can be pooled into data lakes.
- Management software allocates those resources into environments where applications can run, which are then provisioned on-demand with help from an authentication service.
