Owned and maintained by

a cloud service provider,

such as Amazon Web

Services, and made

available to the general

public or industry group

Operated solely for an

organization. It may be

managed by the

organization or a third

party and may be hosted

either internally or

externally

Where they use their own

infrastructure for their

most essential core

activities and adopt public

cloud computing for less

critical systents or for

additional process$-$ ing

capacity during peak

business periods