Microsoft 365 FundamentalsDescribe cloud conceptsHard
A financial services company needs to host sensitive customer data and applications. Due to strict regulatory compliance requirements, they must maintain complete control over the physical location of their data and infrastructure, and they cannot share physical hardware with other organizations. However, they still want to leverage some cloud benefits like scalability and simplified management for less sensitive workloads. Which cloud deployment model would be most appropriate?
- APublic Cloud
- BHybrid Cloud
- CCommunity Cloud
- DPrivate Cloud
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Correct answer: B. Hybrid Cloud
A hybrid cloud allows the company to keep sensitive data and applications in a private cloud (either on-premises or a dedicated cloud environment) to meet strict regulatory and control requirements, while leveraging public cloud services for less sensitive or burstable workloads to gain scalability and simplified management.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Public cloud involves shared infrastructure and would not meet the strict control and physical isolation requirements for sensitive data.
- C. Community cloud shares infrastructure among organizations with common concerns, but doesn't explicitly address the need for a private component for strict control over physical location.
- D. A private cloud would provide the necessary control but might limit the ability to leverage public cloud benefits for other workloads or burst capacity.
Hybrid Cloud
A cloud deployment model that combines a public cloud and a private cloud, allowing data and applications to be shared between them.
- Offers flexibility to keep sensitive data on-premises (private) while using public cloud for less sensitive workloads.
- Enables cloud bursting for fluctuating demand.
- Requires robust connectivity and integration between environments.
Memory trick: Public is shared, Private is yours, Hybrid is both.