Geographiccally disributing workload into multi sites by common sense can be only accessible at Hyper Scaler clouds, such as AWS, Azure and GCP. This is true in most cases, as to deploy an application to multipe sites and have it running with necessary sync up requires significant coordinating and data replications. There are various efforts to make similiar solution available at OpenStack ecosystems. But in real world, solutions of such in the business stay as only a vision, and barely they move ahead to production due to the complexity and high cost.
Let's look at the use cases of mutli-region deployment:
Then what main features is expected from cloud platform piont of view to fulfill such requirements of geo-workload distribution? What we see: one user account, one user portal, one time sign in, one bill, capability of easy moving workload between sites, a guaranteed connecitity. With awareness of the status quo, Uniview has well responded to the call by recent offering that helps each key attributes of geo-distributed workload. Below is how:
One user account is important character in terms of geo-distributed infrastructure. When users sign in different regios with different account to access their workload, they wouldn't be distributed instead, they are just separate. Uniview helps by multiple way, such as one central region is elected to serve as user account, or Uniview IDP itself which support out of SSO. It implements one account to access mapped indivisual site account, but individual account is total hidden from users.
Similiar to user account, the user console is visual approach of managing distributed workload. The frontend portal should be unified from same URL. Different consoles for different workloads at different regions will increase the daily operation difficulty. Uniview user panel is designed to handle multiple regions and all service processes well considered user token and account matching
Billing for public or certain accounting for enterprise cloud, it's expected to have users to pay or manage their own bill or accounting regardless where workload is deployed in region a or in region B. If the billing system for such is not merged, they will not be considered as geo-distributed
Whether user can easily move their VM, Storage, replicate the workload state at point to a second region or cluster, is another fundmenetally factor where multiple regions infrastructure is truly meaningful. Uniview recent backup and workload-in-motion well helps. User generally can one click move, clone their instances to another region. This helps use cases of disater recovery, workload redunduncy across region etc.
Although dedicated network connectivity is preferable, Uniview has proven effective without it. Given that dedicated fiber or other private links can be costly, Uniview can safely use the public internet for user sign‑in and data replication. Under Uniview’s design, each site’s OpenStack remains an autonomous environment within its own security perimeter, so requests between sites and the Uniview portal are protected. Measured latency across the public internet between sites has not degraded the user experience, owing to a design that does not require low‑latency database replication or frequent token synchronization across sites.
Conclusion
To summarize, multi-regions, multi-site are key differentiator of infrastructure today. Multiple shared nothing OpenStack clusters are proven having best resiliency and lowest engineering cost. Uniview has been right engineered for such use case, and one platform for all the needs, one account, one portal, one time sign in, one bill, and it facilitate user workload moving by one click.
Authored by ComputingStack · At Toronto April 2026