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A company wants a cloud solution where sensitive financial data is stored on dedicated infrastructure hosted at the company's own data center, while less sensitive workloads run on a shared public cloud provider, with both environments integrated together. Which cloud deployment model best fits this scenario?
- APrivate cloud
- BHybrid cloud
- CCommunity cloud
- DPublic cloud
Show answer & explanationAnswer & explanation
Correct answer: B. Hybrid cloud
A hybrid cloud combines private (on-premises, dedicated) and public (shared, third-party) cloud resources into an integrated environment, allowing organizations to keep sensitive data private while leveraging public cloud scalability for other workloads. Private and public alone don't describe the combined integration described.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Private cloud alone is dedicated infrastructure, but doesn't include the public component described.
- C. Community cloud is shared among organizations with common concerns, not this scenario.
- D. Public cloud alone is shared infrastructure from a third-party provider, not dedicated.
Hybrid Cloud
A cloud deployment model that combines private and public cloud resources, allowing data and applications to be shared between them.
- Combines private (dedicated) and public (shared) clouds
- Allows sensitive workloads to stay private
- Provides scalability of public cloud when needed
Memory trick: Hybrid cloud is a 'mix tape' blending private security with public scale.