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Hybrid Cloud (AI)

Reviewed 9 April 2026 Canonical definition

Hybrid cloud for AI refers to architectures in which AI agents run across a combination of on-premises infrastructure, private cloud, and public cloud environments. Hybrid deployments are common in regulated industries where certain data cannot leave specific environments, but teams still want to leverage public cloud model APIs for general workloads. Governance must span all environments consistently.