White Paper
Enabling Next-Generation Applications with Multicloud Platforms
This IDC Spotlight examines how multicloud platforms are becoming foundational for agentic AI and next-generation applications. IDC projects 1.3 billion AI agents worldwide by 2028, while 92% of surveyed enterprises already report having an AI strategy. The paper highlights the need for AI-ready infrastructure, integrated vector databases, unified structured and unstructured data, real-time HTAP, low-latency access, multicloud portability, and strong sovereignty controls. It also addresses challenges including cross-cloud connectivity, egress costs, governance, observability, regulatory compliance, and dynamic workload placement. MongoDB Atlas is presented as a multicloud platform combining JSON documents, vector search, real-time analytics, and deployment across AWS, Azure, and Google Clo
