For enterprises, cloud strategy has moved beyond provider selection; now, what matters is how your data moves across a multicloud environment.

While cloud migration strategies often focus heavily on compute, storage, and application refactoring, network connectivity is frequently treated as an afterthought. This oversight leads to spiraling egress fees, latency bottlenecks, security vulnerabilities, and vendor lock-in.

This guide outlines the 10 most critical connectivity mistakes enterprise IT leaders make when architecting hybrid and multicloud environments — and provides actionable solutions to build a resilient, scalable, and cost-effective network foundation.