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An organization is evaluating cloud computing for its new project. They are concerned about data residency requirements, which mandate that certain sensitive data must remain physically within their country's borders. Which cloud deployment model would best address this specific concern while still leveraging some cloud benefits?
- ACommunity Cloud
- BPublic Cloud
- CPrivate Cloud
- DMulti-cloud
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Correct answer: C. Private Cloud
A Private Cloud deployment model allows an organization to maintain control over its infrastructure, ensuring data residency requirements are met by hosting the cloud resources within its own data centers or a dedicated private environment.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Community Cloud is shared by specific organizations with common concerns, but doesn't guarantee single-organization control over data residency.
- B. Public Cloud services are shared by many organizations, and data location may not be strictly controlled to a specific country's borders without specific regional commitments from the provider.
- D. Multi-cloud involves using multiple cloud providers and doesn't inherently solve data residency unless each cloud is configured as a private or highly controlled public region.
Private Cloud
A cloud deployment model where computing services are offered either over the Internet or a private internal network and only to select users instead of the general public.
- Dedicated to a single organization.
- Offers greater control over data and security.
- Can be hosted on-premises or by a third-party provider in a dedicated environment.
Memory trick: Public for All, Private for One.