April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
280 pages
8h 37m
English
When IT resources such as computing servers, storage, development platforms, applications, and so on are made available as a service over the internet and can be provisioned on demand using a publicly available self-service portal, such an offering is called a public cloud. Public clouds offer rapid elasticity and limitless scalability. They provide a measured service in which users are billed based on their usage.
Public clouds are hosted and managed using datacenters that belong to cloud service providers. The resources can be shared by multiple customers. This feature is called multi-tenancy. Sharing resources helps in reducing costs. However, there is reduced control over the resources in a public cloud than in a private ...