Public Cloud

Public cloud services are offered by cloud service providers over the Internet and are available to anyone who wishes to subscribe. A few of the top public cloud service providers today include Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, VMware Cloud on AWS, and Google Cloud. These companies control large data centers with sizable pools of virtualized computing resources.

The main difference between private and public clouds is whether available computing resources can be leveraged by different organizations. If the Cloud has restricted access to all resources to one organization, it’s a private cloud. If the Cloud is open to the public, it’s a public cloud.

Hybrid Cloud

Enterprise organizations are increasingly deploying hybrid cloud architectures to meet their computing needs. A hybrid cloud environment includes a mix of private cloud and public cloud services. Hybrid cloud deployments use cloud orchestration tools to enable communication and data transfer between these services.

With hybrid cloud architecture, enterprise cloud adopters get the benefits of both public and private cloud architectures. Public cloud providers supply low-cost infrastructure that makes it easy to scale operations when extra capacity is needed while private cloud infrastructure can be used to secure the organization’s most sensitive data.