What is a public cloud service?
What is a public cloud service? A public cloud is an IT model where public cloud service providers make computing services—including compute and storage, develop-and-deploy environments, and applications—available on-demand to organizations and individuals over the public internet.
Where is public cloud hosted?
Like all cloud services, a public cloud service runs on remote servers that a provider manages. Customers of that provider access those services over the Internet.
What are 3 examples of a public cloud?
- Amazon Web Services.
- Microsoft Azure.
- IBM Cloud.
- Google Cloud Platform.
- Oracle Cloud.
Is AWS a public cloud?
The AWS public cloud
In the public cloud space, AWS provides services such as the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon Amazon EC2), which provides infrastructure and services over the public internet and are hosted at an identified AWS Region (for example, Canada Central ).