Understanding the challenges and novel architectural models of multi-cloud native applications – a systematic literature review

Journal of Cloud Computing

Advances, Systems and Applications

Table 6 Studies classification per multi-cloud definition

Multi Cloud Concept	Primary Study
Hybrid Cloud (public vs. private)	[44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52]
IoT or physical nodes	[53,54,55,56]
Different cloud services from different cloud providers	[8, 17, 26, 29, 31, 34, 57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73]
Multi-cloud in a broader sense	[74,75,76]
Federated Cloud Services	[17, 32, 77,78,79,80,81]
Multi-cloud Services Communities	[82]