CompTIA Cloud Essentials+ (CLO-002)Business Principles of Cloud EnvironmentsHard
A financial services company is planning a cloud migration for its highly regulated customer data. They currently have robust on-premises security controls and compliance frameworks. The company wants to extend its existing security policies and governance across its cloud resources while maintaining direct control over the underlying infrastructure for specific sensitive applications. Which cloud deployment model would best align with these requirements?
- AHybrid Cloud
- BPublic Cloud
- CCommunity Cloud
- DPrivate Cloud
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Correct answer: A. Hybrid Cloud
A Hybrid Cloud deployment model allows a company to combine its on-premises infrastructure (private cloud) with a public cloud. This enables them to keep highly sensitive data and applications with specific control requirements on-premises while leveraging the scalability and flexibility of the public cloud for other workloads. This model helps extend existing security policies and governance.
Why the other options are wrong
- B. Public Cloud involves sharing infrastructure with other tenants, making direct control over underlying infrastructure challenging for highly sensitive data.
- C. Community Cloud shares infrastructure among several organizations with common concerns, which doesn't fit the need for extending *their own* security policies to *their own* on-premises and cloud resources.
- D. Private Cloud is entirely on-premises or dedicated, limiting the scalability and flexibility benefits of a public cloud component.
Hybrid Cloud
A cloud computing environment that combines a private cloud with one or more public cloud services, with proprietary software enabling communication between them.
- Combines private and public clouds
- Enables workload portability
- Offers flexibility and control
Memory trick: Think of deployment models as where your stuff lives: Public (shared apartment), Private (your own house), Hybrid (house + shared storage unit).