Internal users receive private cloud services from a company's data center. A private cloud allows a company to design and manage its own underlying cloud infrastructure. This architecture provides the flexibility and convenience of the cloud while retaining the administration, control, and security features of traditional data centers. Internal users may or may not be invoiced for services provided by IT chargeback. VMware and OpenStack are two popular private cloud technologies and manufacturers.

The cloud service is delivered over the internet by a third-party cloud service provider (CSP) in the public cloud model. Public cloud services are normally sold on a per-minute or hour basis, while long-term commitments are available for many services. Customers only pay for the number of central processing unit cycles, storage, or bandwidth used.

AWS, Microsoft Azure, IBM, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), as well as IBM, Oracle, and Tencent, are among the leading public CSPs.

A hybrid cloud is a mix of public cloud services and on-premises private cloud services, including orchestration and automation between the two. Companies can utilize the private cloud to operate mission-critical workloads or sensitive applications and the public cloud to address workload surges or spikes in demand. A hybrid cloud's purpose is to build a unified, automated, scalable environment that takes advantage of all a public cloud architecture has to offer yet while preserving control over mission-critical data. The Cloud Computing Course will walk you through all the concepts of cloud computing and give you practical experience with hands-on projects.