What Is Difference Between Private Cloud and Public Cloud?
Sophia Al-Mansoor
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In Brief, Public Clouds Utilize Shared Infrastructure, While Private Clouds Utilize an Organization's Own Infrastructure. Public Clouds Alleviate the...
In brief, public clouds utilize shared infrastructure, while private clouds utilize an organization's own infrastructure. Public clouds alleviate the responsibility for management of the infrastructure since they are by definition hosted by a public cloud provider such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
What is the prime difference between public and private cloud?
The main differentiator between public and private clouds is that you aren't responsible for any of the management of a public cloud hosting solution. Your data is stored in the provider's data center and the provider is responsible for the management and maintenance of the data center.
The public cloud or public cloud is freely available to everyone over the Internet. The services are provided by an external company. The three largest public cloud providers include Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.