Public PaaS versus private PaaS

It is important for consumers of PaaS services to understand the pros and cons of both public and private PaaS before deciding to use a PaaS deployment model. A public PaaS runs on a shared infrastructure to host multi-tenant environments, whereas a private PaaS runs on an infrastructure that is used exclusively by an organization. A private PaaS is considered more secure, and it avoids business and technical risks that come with public cloud computing. The major concern behind choosing a private cloud is data security. This does not mean that your data is not secure within a public cloud, it simply means that sometimes data is not safe. For example, the banking sector does not host critical data on a public ...

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