Cloud computing and its basics

Cloud computing is a kind of system that provides on-demand and agile resources in a pay-as-you-go billing model, multitenant, or dedicated computing resource such as compute, storage, and network. As per NIST definitions, cloud computing comes with four cloud deployment models and three cloud service models as given in the following diagram:

Cloud deployment models define the way resources are deployed in the environment such as on-premise and exclusively for a specific organization, that is, a private cloud; or cloud resources that are accessible to all organizations and individuals over the internet, that ...

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