The Five Characteristics of Cloud Computing

• On-demand self-service:

  • Users can provision resources and use them without human interaction from the service provide

• Broad network access:

  • Resources are available over the network and can be accessed by diverse client platforms

• Multi-tenancy and resource pooling:

  • Multiple customers can share the same infrastructure and applications with security and privacy

  • Multiple customers are serviced from the same physical resources

• Rapid elasticity and scalability:

  • Automatically and quickly acquire and dispose of resources when needed

  • Quickly and easily scale based on demand

• Measured service:

  • Usage is measured, users pay correctly for what they have used

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