What is Public Clouds

A cloud infrastructure that is available to the public on the commercial basis by cloud service provider with little financial outflow.

A public cloud in which a company relies on a third party cloud service provider for services such as servers, data storage and applications which are delivered to the company through the Internet. A public cloud can free companies from the potentially expensive costs of having to purchase, manage and maintain on-premises hardware and software infrastructure (Webopedia, 2015 AU127: The in-text citation "Webopedia, 2015" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ).