Chapter 4

Fundamental Concepts and Models

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4.1 Roles and Boundaries

4.2 Cloud Characteristics

4.3 Cloud Delivery Models

4.4 Cloud Deployment Models

The upcoming sections cover introductory topic areas pertaining to the fundamental models used to categorize and define clouds and their most common service offerings, along with definitions of organizational roles and the specific set of characteristics that collectively distinguish a cloud.

4.1 Roles and Boundaries

Organizations and humans can assume different types of predefined roles depending on how they relate to and/or interact with a cloud and its hosted IT resources. Each of the upcoming ...

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