Archetypes of the Edge
The Five Cloud Edge Profiles
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Cloud Data Center
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Load Balancer
Database
Database
Compute Compute
Firewall
Company A
Company A
Parent
Cloud Data Center
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Database
Database
Compute Compute
Firewall
Compute
Cloud Data Center
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CDN
Database
Company B
Subsidiary
The pattern appears when a company acquires another company but they do not consolidate
their infrastructure providers. The parent and acquired companies continue to use the same set
of cloud and SaaS providers they were using before the acquisition.
Acquisitions without Mergers
The "cloud indigenous" have built their services to leverage all the advantages of the "as-a-service"
revolution. Their balance sheets hold no IPv4/IPv6 assets, autonomous systems, or Internet-facing
hardware. Instead, they have invested in developing an "infrastructure-as-code" environment.
Cloud Indigenous
This occurs when a large parent company has a number of individual brands each operating
their own infrastructure. In this scenario, each brand is making independent infrastructure
decisions, including cloud hosting providers and CDNs.
Hub and Spoke
Load Balancer
Load Balancer
Database
Compute
Firewall
Company A
Cloud Data Center
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Load Balancer
Database
Database
Compute Compute
Firewall
Load Balancer
Load Balancer
Load Balancer
Compute
Compute
Company A
The "flux" pattern is a signature of a cloud-native company, or a company moving to the cloud.
There is a central core of fixed infrastructure in a data center, or provider cloud and CDN, that
supports the front door/landing page of the business. However, the rest of the infrastructure
used to deliver service moves between providers, potentially driven by cost optimization,
customer endpoint colocation/fast connect, or other factors.
Flux
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Colony on Mars
Company A Company A
Cloud Data Center
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Database
Database
Compute
Firewall
CDN
Cloud Data Center
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Database
Database
Compute
Firewall CDN
Cloud
Load Balancer
Compute
Database
Firewall
CDN
Company A
This occurs when a company gradually migrates more and more of its services from its data
center to the cloud over a period of time.
Load Balancer
Database
Compute
CDN
Firewall
Brand 3
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Database
Compute
CDN
Firewall
Brand 4
Load Balancer
Database
Compute
CDN
Firewall
Brand 1
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Brand 2
