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Cloud Computing · Foundational

Private Cloud

Deployment model where cloud infrastructure is provisioned for exclusive use by a single organization, on or off premises.

Definition

A private cloud delivers cloud characteristics such as self-service and elasticity for one organization only. It may be owned, managed and operated by the organization, a third party or both, and may reside on or off premises; it offers greater control at the cost of capital investment and limited scale.

Example

A bank runs an OpenStack-based self-service platform in its own data centers for internal teams.

Exam tip

Simply virtualizing servers is not a private cloud unless it adds self-service, pooling, elasticity and metering.

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