Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions

Public

Public is the typical IaaS-compute deployment model most people think of when referring to the cloud. A public cloud service provider offers IT resources as-a-service and, as part of the service, is responsible for building, monitoring, and maintaining physical data centers and IT resources that are for dynamic public consumption. This IT service environment is shared among many customers which normally reduces costs for each customer. By leveraging economies of scale, the CSP enables higher average utilization of resources through the extensive use of virtualization, workload binding, offsetting clients workload patterns, and performance tiers.

The general public uses a public cloud infrastructure. The infrastructure may be owned, ...