Managed Public Cloud

Public cloud is multi-tenant infrastructure delivered over the internet by providers such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. You consume compute, storage and networking as a service, typically billed by usage, and share the underlying hardware with other customers.

Public cloud platforms are the product suites on those providers — virtual machines, databases, networking, identity and hundreds of adjacent services — that Hyve can design, migrate and operate on your behalf.

Public cloud works well for variable demand, bursty traffic, global reach, or when you want access to a provider’s managed services without owning hardware. It is also a common choice for development, disaster recovery and workloads that must scale quickly.

It is less suitable when you need guaranteed isolation, strict data residency, or consistent performance that shared tenancy cannot promise. In those cases private or enterprise cloud — or a hybrid mix — is usually the better fit.

It can be, if usage is left unmanaged. Public cloud’s pay-as-you-go model is efficient for short-lived or spiky workloads, but idle resources, oversized instances and data egress add up quickly.

Hyve’s public cloud management includes monitoring and cost optimization so you keep the flexibility of Azure or AWS without surprise bills. For steady, always-on workloads, a private or enterprise cloud with fixed monthly billing is often more predictable.

Public cloud shares hardware across many customers and is operated by the hyperscaler. Private cloud uses dedicated hardware for a single organization, so you control security, residency and performance more tightly.

Neither is universally “better”. Public cloud wins on breadth of services and elasticity; private cloud wins on isolation and predictability. Many Hyve customers run both and we manage the combination as a hybrid estate.