api: YAML JSON TOON Database
version: 1.0.0
format: yaml
dataset:
  id: 2745
  slug: cloud-deployment-models
  title: Cloud Deployment Models
  description: Models that describe where cloud infrastructure runs.
  summary: "The ways cloud infrastructure is deployed: public, private, hybrid, community and multi-cloud, plus distributed, edge and sovereign variants and the virtual private cloud network boundary. Each row says who owns and uses the infrastructure."
  use_when:
    - You are comparing where a workload should run for cost, control or compliance reasons.
    - You need the standard definition of hybrid versus multi-cloud.
  caveats:
    - Hybrid means mixing private and public infrastructure; multi-cloud means using more than one public provider. The two are often combined.
    - Sovereign and distributed cloud are recent categories and are used inconsistently by vendors.
  related:
    - cloud-service-models
    - major-cloud-providers
    - virtualization-concepts
  entry_count: 9
  fields:
    - section: data
      field: model
      type: string
      example: Public
    - section: data
      field: description
      type: string
      example: Services owned by a third-party provider and sh…
  category: Cloud Computing
  category_slug: cloud-computing
  tags: cloud,deployment,hybrid
  view_count: 42
  created_at: 1793403093
  updated_at: 1793403093
data:
  - model: Public
    description: Services owned by a third-party provider and shared among customers.
  - model: Private
    description: Infrastructure dedicated to a single organization.
  - model: Hybrid
    description: Combines public and private clouds with orchestration.
  - model: Community
    description: Shared infrastructure for a specific community with common concerns.
  - model: Multi-Cloud
    description: Uses services from multiple cloud providers.
  - model: Distributed Cloud
    description: Public-cloud services run from the provider's infrastructure placed in different physical locations, including a customer's, while still managed by the provider.
  - model: Edge Cloud
    description: Compute placed close to users or devices to cut latency and bandwidth to a central region.
  - model: Sovereign Cloud
    description: Cloud operated under the legal control of a particular jurisdiction to meet data-residency and sovereignty requirements.
  - model: Virtual Private Cloud
    description: A logically isolated network within a public cloud where a customer defines address ranges, subnets and routing.