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Types of cloud

Types of cloud

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Types of cloud

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- There are different types of cloud services available to you, and it's important to make a proper choice to meet your needs. Public cloud is what most of us are familiar with. The service is offered to any eligible users, as its name suggest. Because of this open nature, its users have to share cloud resources with other customers. What this means is that your virtual machines, or VMs, could be running side by side with your neighbors on the same physical server or in the same network. This presents a real security challenge because malicious users could gain access to your VM through the common hypervisor or network shared with their victims. One of the consequences of such a breach is stolen data. The attackers can steal sensitive information stored on your VM. Another possibility is that they simply wipe out your data or add their own records for fraudulent purposes. Control over your data is another thing to consider. As soon as you upload your data to the cloud, your service…

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