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End-Term Report on

Private cloud vs. Public cloud

Submitted to: Lovneet Kaur ma’am

Submitted By: Ajay Rangisetti

Registration number: 11712404

Roll No: 06
Section: K17RG

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I hereby declare that the case study entitled "PUBLIC CLOUD vs. PRIVATE CLOUD” submitted at
Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab is an authentic work and has not been
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I understand that the work presented herewith is in direct compliance with Lovely
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AJAY RANGISETTI

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

CONTENTS PAGE NO.

 Declaration by the Student 2

 Table of Contents 3
 Abstract 4
 Introduction 5
 Classification of clouds 6
 Public cloud vs. Private cloud 7
 Public cloud computing tradeoffs 10
 Private cloud computing tradeoffs 11
 Conclusion 12
 References 13
 Abstract
The Private Cloud Hosting platforms mainly concentrated on the objectives like optimization of
resources, monitoring business applications, networking, access to the system on demand, user
management or group management etc. As of the increasing growth in technology, cloud
computing became more reliable and dependent technique to follow. Many of the organizations
and firms are more interested in transforming their data base and relaying on cloud than sticking
on the former traditional database systems. The architecture of the public cloud is dependent
upon sharing and accessing data within the permitted users and third party ones. On the other
hand, private cloud architecture is purely based on the client requirements and is flexible to serve
the purpose of clients. Things like scaling up environment, bandwidth, security is also provided
in accordance with the nature of cloud and requirements of the user.
 Introduction
What is Cloud Computing?

Cloud computing is basically defined as the off-premise, on-demand computing

technology where the end-user is provided with applications, computing resources and other
services and infrastructure by cloud service providers through internet. When there was need of
an internal computing system which is more economically and technically flexible, cloud
computing became most efficient to serve the purpose. Cloud computing is mostly considered as
a computing model than a technology where the users or customers plug into the cloud to access
the essential resources. These resources are rented and shared among a group of users or
organizations in ways like storage spaces, database etc. Though a data center or a server does the
same thing, cloud replaces them as it is more efficient, cheaper and easily scaled on demand.

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Classification of clouds:
Cloud computing is basically divided into 4 types based on the location where the cloud is hosted:

1. Public Cloud:
Public cloud is which the cloud infrastructure is at vendor’s premises and the customer has no
visibility over the location of infrastructure. This infrastructure is shared among different
organizations.

2. Private Cloud:

In this type of cloud, cloud architecture is dedicated to a specific client or customer which is not
shared with any other organizations. The computing infrastructure may be hosted externally or
can be premise. These are expensive and are mostly more secured than public clouds.

3. Hybrid Cloud:

Hybrid cloud can be defined as the combination of public and private cloud. It can be
considered that private clouds which are used for critical applications are turned into hybrid
when there is a peak loads than normal usage of cloud resources.

4. Community Cloud:

When the cloud resources and infrastructure is shared among a specific community or only a
particular group of users, it can be called as Community Cloud. Cases like government agencies
can use this type cloud to monitor and provide resources among themselves.
 Public cloud Vs. Private cloud

 Public cloud is mostly used as a service through internet may be using some
credentials to access by the users, whereas in private cloud model, the resources
are deployed and are secured through some boundaries like firewall which is
completely monitored and managed by the client’s organization.

 In public cloud, users are provided with services with a timely generated bill or
expense to be paid. Private cloud users are charged according to the quantity of
resources used like per GB usage along with bandwidth transfer fees.

 Storage demand scalability is the prime principle of public cloud in which there is
no requirement of hardware device. Whereas, in private cloud even without the
requirement of hardware , the data can only be shared among the members of
organization and any third party can only be involved with the permissions of the
organization. It is totally monitored by the organization that the resources used are
only by its members and their privilege.

Difference between Public Cloud and Private cloud:

 Private cloud can also be defines as the ‘single tenant’ cloud as the services
hosted by the provider is only utilized by a single group or organization. In
the following diagram, we are representing two private clouds being
interlinked on a policy based replication in two data centers. In this way, the
other cloud provides backup and recovery of data in the time of disaster. A
third cloud can also be added in order to ensure even higher levels of
security and disaster management
 Cost and Expenditure:

 The growth of storage dynamically is always an issue in the case of private

cloud. Growth of storage and utilization of resources results in spend much
expense on the service. Continues efforts are being put in order to make the
dynamic utilization of resources cost-effective. This is the case where hybrid
cloud model is greatly into the process. Private cloud services where there
was an excess requirement of resources and also to be cost effective provide
the wanted extra resources as a public service and thus it make a hybrid
model.

Privacy and Security:

 In the case of privacy and security, private cloud is more private than public
cloud as the no. of tenants or the organizations involved in a single cloud is
only one. This is essentially good for the companies which have a greater
need of security and isolation, who also want to cut costs on the database
without building datacenters and using cloud services instead. On the other
 hand, public cloud is used by the organizations which are small scale and
dependent on cloud for storage and other services regardless of risk of
security and privacy.

Scalability:
 Though public cloud is considered as less secure and private than private
cloud, when it comes to the part of scalability, public cloud always stands
first as the resources can be scaled up and down whenever the user requests.
Scalability in private cloud is not so cost effective and also leads to change
in the service level agreement and many other things to make it happen.

Public Clouds computing Tradeoffs:

Utility Model -
Generally public clouds offer services which are paid in accordance with the
amount of resources used for a particular time. This is also known as pay-as-
you-go model, which is an economical way to regulate the usage of
resources and charge the user.

No Contracts –
If the user wants to shut the service usage down after a certain regulated
period of time on his will, there is no contract to be submitted to shut the
service down.

Self-Managed –
In order to support the utility model for service, a self-managed system is
required to regulate and record the services used by the users. Users can
easily have the idea of how and why they are being charged at any point of
time.

Most of the public cloud services are used for web services, telecom services,
development systems etc., which involves high customer usage of services
in terms of hardware or software.
Private cloud computing Tradeoffs:

Security –
As the private clouds are used and accessed only by a single entity, Data
storage and network can be more secure as there would be no access of data
from different clients.

Compliance –
When storage and network is accessed by more than one client like in the
case of public cloud, Compliance can’t be achieved. Whereas Sarbanes
Oxley, PCI and HIPAA compliance can be delivered through private cloud
deployment.

Customizable –
Things like hardware performance, network performance and storage
performance can be customized and specified as per the requirement in
private cloud.
Hybrid Deployments –
In the case of a particular and dedicated server running a high speed
database application, it can be integrated into a private cloud which in turn is
a hybridizing the solution between virtual and dedicated servers which can’t
be achieved in a public cloud.
 CONCLUSION:

Considering many factors like security, scalability, privacy, compliance etc. the
selection of cloud model is purely based on the requirement of the user or
the organization. In case of higher requirement of resources and scalability,
public cloud model is greatly suggested as it is cost-effective and can be
shared among different entities.
In case of greater importance to the security and integrity of data by a single
or particular organization to ensure privacy to the client, Private cloud model
is best for the purpose.
Public cloud can be established and installed at a place which is away from the
user whereas, in most of the cases private cloud or data center are
established close to the client or organization.

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