Private / Public / Hybrid Cloud

Private cloud:

A private cloud, an evolution from corporate datacenters, grants exclusive control to a single entity while incurring greater costs and potentially being hosted on-site or in a dedicated offsite datacenter managed by a third party.

Public cloud:

A public cloud, managed by a third-party provider, offers accessible resources to anyone seeking cloud services, distinguishing it from private clouds by its open availability to all users.

Hybrid cloud:

A hybrid cloud merges public and private clouds, facilitating flexible resource usage, temporary scaling, and selective service deployment for added security.


Private clouds: are hosted in a company’s own data centre or on dedicated hardware that is owned by the company.

Public clouds: are hosted in a shared environment such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure.

Hybrid clouds: combine both private and public cloud models for maximum flexibility.