4.1b - Cloud Characteristics: Professor Messer

Shared Resources

Resources that are shared with a public cloud provider, where the underlying cloud infrastructure is owned by a third party.

Dedicated Resources

Resources that are not shared, where an organization builds its own cloud environment/datacenter and pays for everything up front.

Metered Utilization

Payment of cloud services based on the amount of service used, typically including costs for upload, storage, and download.

Ingress

Refers to data entering a cloud environment, often uncharged by cloud providers.

Egress

Refers to data leaving a cloud environment, often charged by cloud providers.

Non-metered Payment

Payment for cloud services independent of usage, typically managed by paying monthly for a specific block/quantity of storage.

Rapid Elasticity

A characteristic of cloud computing that allows platforms to scale up or down as needed.

High Availability

Refers to cloud environments’ high redundancy, ensuring that systems are always available without significant downtime.

File Synchronization

Refers to information/files being duplicated across multiple cloud locations.

Multitenancy

Refers to multiple customers of a cloud vendor using the same cloud computing resources.