CompTIA Network+ (N10-009)Networking ConceptsMedium
A company keeps sensitive financial records on private, on-premises servers but wants to leverage a public cloud provider's elastic compute resources during seasonal traffic spikes for its public-facing website. Which cloud deployment model best fits this requirement?
- ACommunity cloud
- BPublic cloud
- CPrivate cloud
- DHybrid cloud
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Correct answer: D. Hybrid cloud
A hybrid cloud combines private (on-premises) infrastructure with public cloud resources, allowing organizations to keep sensitive data private while bursting workloads to the public cloud as needed.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. A community cloud is shared among organizations with common concerns, not a mix of private/public.
- B. A public cloud alone would host all resources externally, not keeping sensitive data on-premises.
- C. A private cloud alone wouldn't provide elastic public cloud resources for spikes.
Hybrid Cloud
A hybrid cloud combines private and public cloud infrastructure, allowing data and applications to be shared between them for flexibility and scalability.
- Combines private and public cloud
- Enables cloud bursting for scalability
- Keeps sensitive data on private infrastructure
Memory trick: Hybrid = 'Half Private, Half Public' working together.