There are two main types of cloud models depending on the needs of the customers: public versus private and multi-tenant versus single-tenant. These different cloud types offer different levels of management, security, and pricing.
A public cloud consists of resources that are located off-site over the internet. In a public cloud, the infrastructure is typically multi-tenant. Multiple customers can share the same underlying hardware or server. Resources such as networking, storage, power, cooling and computing are all shared. The customer usually has no visibility of where this infrastructure is hosted except for choosing a geographic region. The pricing mode of a public cloud service is based on the volume of data, the computing ...
