Publisher's Synopsis
Cloud computing, in general, is the delivery of hosted services over the internet. Private clouds use a company's own infrastructure, whereas public clouds use shared infrastructure. Since they are by definition hosted by a public cloud provider like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, public clouds reduce the burden of managing the infrastructure. Enterprise data and application code are stored on the servers of the cloud service provider in a public cloud deployment. On the other hand, private clouds are hosted on a business's internal network and are frequently firewalled and physically secured. Largely on-premises infrastructure-invested mature corporations frequently use that capital to build their private clouds. Other names for cloud computing include utility computing and on-demand computing. Cloud services fall under three major types or categories of cloud computing: Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS). The dynamic nature of infrastructure management, especially when increasing applications and services, can offer a variety of problems even when businesses adequately resource their departments. They can outsource many of the time-consuming IT-related duties as-a-service models. Understanding the security needs for data protection is crucial as organizations continue to shift to the cloud. The management of this infrastructure may be transferred to a third-party cloud service provider, but the accountability and security of data assets may not always follow.
