AWS Certified cloud practitioner: What is cloud computing? cloud computing is the on demand delivery of the compute power, database storage, applications and other IT resources through a cloud services platform with pay-as-you-go pricing. you can provision exactly the right type and size of the computing resources you need. you can access many resources as you need almost instantly like servers, storage,databases and application services as well. Amazon web services owns and maintains the network connected hardware required for these application services, while you provision and use what you need via a web application. ***************************************** Deployment models of Cloud: Private Cloud: Cloud service used by a single organisation, not exposed to the public. complete control. security of the sensitive applications meeting specific business needs. ********************** Public Cloud: Cloud resources owned and operated by the third party. cloud service provider delivers r