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+title: "Maximize Business Outcomes In Your Multi-Cloud Environment"
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+date: 2025-03-02
+meta_desc: Discover how Pulumi Cloud can accelerate speed, ensure security, scale operations, and save costs in your multi-cloud environment.
+meta_image: Cloud-Competitive-Advantage.jpg
+authors:
+    - marlowe-fenne
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+tags:
+    - cloud-native
+    - cloud-engineering
+---
+Overcoming the cost and complexity of mutli-cloud environments and managing infrastructure more effectively is a perpetual challenge. For thousands of companies growing Platform Engineering skills, the solution to these challenges may be closer than you think.
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+Hundreds of thousands of developers across the globe already rely on Pulumi to drive more scalable, repeatable deployments in large self-managed production environments. By combining the power of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with automation, compliance, and robust security within a Pulumi-hosted environment, you can achieve new levels of performance, visibility and security while reducing risk. Here are a few examples:
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+### Speed - Streamlined Operations
+Pulumi Cloud accelerates time to market. It automates deployments, manages state, and centralizes secrets, eliminating the complexities of DIY IaC backends. Its transactional state management prevents issues like outages caused by mismanaged state files, offering a secure, reliable platform for scaling operations.
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+[Materialize](https://www.pulumi.com/case-studies/materialize/) reduced costs and accelerated time to market by making developer onboarding 75% faster.
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+### Scale - Improved Developer Productivity
+By supporting modern programming languages like Python, TypeScript, and Go, Pulumi Cloud allows developers to define infrastructure using familiar tools, speeding up onboarding and simplifying workflows. Predefined policy packs and dynamic secrets further reduce operational overhead.
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+[BMW Group](https://www.pulumi.com/case-studies/bmw/) used Pulumi to build a scalable and resilient hybrid cloud implementation that could handle more than eleven thousand developers.
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+### Security - Enhanced Security and Compliance
+With features like Pulumi CrossGuard for policy enforcement and Pulumi ESC for centralized secrets management, Pulumi Cloud ensures adherence to security standards like SOC2 and HIPAA. This eliminates the risks associated with improperly stored credentials or manually enforced policies.
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+[Tetrate](https://www.pulumi.com/product/secrets-management/) uses Pulumi ESC to stop secrets sprawl and attain compliance more efficiently.
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+### Savings - Cost Efficiency
+Pulumi Cloud’s AI-driven insights identify stale infrastructure and optimize resource use, reducing waste and cutting costs. Its managed service eliminates the need for dedicated backend engineers, freeing resources for core business innovation.
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+[Unity Technologies](https://www.pulumi.com/case-studies/unity/) reduced deployment times by 80%, from weeks to hours, significantly improving their time to market.
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+By choosing Pulumi Cloud, IT leaders can focus on driving innovation, securing infrastructure, and achieving scalability without the hidden costs and risks of managing IaC backends manually. It’s a comprehensive solution for modern cloud management.
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+_"Pulumi lets us manage multi-cluster Kubernetes infrastructure efficiently, all in one stack. It has hugely benefited productivity and our service's reliability. Without Pulumi, we know that scaling and maintaining Materialize would be much harder for the team."_
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+_– Paul Hemberger, Engineering Manager for Materialize’s cloud team_
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+Is your team ready to move from a self-managed environment to Pulumi cloud? Explore your options with [these resources](https://www.pulumi.com/product/pulumi-cloud/), and [enroll in our workshop](https://info.pulumi.com/pulumi-platform-engineering-immersion-days) series that’s customizable for your cloud and business environment.