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Key cloud computing characteristics

Key cloud computing characteristics

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Key cloud computing characteristics

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- [Instructor] Welcome to this lesson on key cloud computing characteristics. As promised on the last lesson, in this lesson, we're going to do a deeper dive into the five cloud computing characteristics as defined by NIST. So first we're going to give a quick overview and recap of those, and then we'll go into the definitions of each of those characteristics. And then finally, we're going to touch on a concept called multi-tenancy to help establish that for future lessons. Alright, so as a quick recap, the five key characteristics as defined by NIST SP 800-145 for cloud computing are on-demand, self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, measured service, and finally, rapid elasticity. So getting into these definitions, on-demand self-service is going to be the capability for users to automatically provision and manage resources without human intervention. So what this means is that if I log into Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure, I'm going to be able to spin up…

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