In a public cloud deployment model, third-party cloud service provider often provide the cloud service over the internet . Public cloud services are sold with respect to demand and by a minute or hour basis. But if you want, you can go for a long term commitment for up to five years in some cases, such as renting a virtual machine. In the case of renting a virtual machine, the customers pay for the duration, storage, or bandwidth that they consume (this might vary from vendor to vendor).
Major public cloud service providers include:
- Google Cloud Platform: https://cloud.google.com
- Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com
- IBM: https://www.ibm.com/cloud
- Microsoft Azure: https://azure.microsoft.com
- Rackspace: https://www.rackspace.com/cloud ...
