CompTIA Cloud Essentials Exam Cram Notes

Chapter 1: Characteristics of Cloud Services from a Business Perspective
Introduction to Cloud Computing
Cloud computing refers to the on-demand delivery of computing resources through a cloud services platform with pay-as-you-go pricing.
Attributes of Cloud Computing
Elasticity
Elasticity is the capacity to dynamically expand or reduce infrastructure resources as required to adapt to workload modifications in an autonomic manner, maximizing resource utilization.
On-Demand Service
Based on the requirement, a business can avail services such as E-mail, Network, Applications, Storage, Databases, and so on without interacting with each cloud service provider.
Resource Pooling
Cloud computing allows different end users to collaborate and share resources over the network. It is possible within a company or between two companies.