Cloud Deployment Models
Another perspective for looking at cloud computing has to do with the ownership level of cloud infrastructure components rather than looking at the service types being provisioned and utilized. For the CCSP exam, you will be expected to know and learn the following cloud deployment models:
- Public cloud
- Private cloud
- Hybrid cloud
- Community cloud
- Multi-cloud
At a high level, you have the first two opposing models, with clear differences in the approach to the ownership level of cloud computing infrastructure components: the public cloud versus the private cloud. Then there are the hybrid and community clouds, with varying levels of ownership and co-sharing of the cloud infrastructure components between customers. The last cloud deployment model, recently introduced to the CCSP CBK, is the multi-cloud deployment model, which is a result of the fact that many cloud customers utilize cloud services from multiple cloud service providers...
