Such service is owned and operated by a third-party cloud service provider, rendering their computing resources over the internet, like servers and storage. All hardware, software and other infrastructural support is owned and managed by Cloud provider. Organizations can access these services and managed through their account using web browser. In Public Cloud, security is very limited and mostly available for public use. Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Storage (GCS) are few examples of it.

It’s all in the name. Hybrid cloud involves the combination of public and private cloud. This method is bound through by technology allowing data and applications to be shared between private and public cloud. By doing this, it allows organizations great amount of flexibility and more deployment options.

Private Cloud refers to cloud computing resources acquired by a single organization. These resources can be physically located on company premises data center or organization can attain these resources from offsite data center from 3rd party service provider. This service comes with high-level security and can only be available to organizations with access.