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What is the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) definition of cloud computing?
Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable and reliable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal consumer management effort or service provider interaction.
What are the basic characteristics of cloud computing mentioned in the text?
Cost-efficient and dynamic scaling, ability to utilize the maximum without managing the underlying complexity of the technology, and the cloud architecture can be hosted as private or public.
What are the value propositions of cloud computing mentioned in the text?
Scalability on demand (scale up and down), streamlining the data center (internal hosting or external hosting), improving business processes (sharing data and applications in the cloud with business partners), and minimizing startup costs (no investments on infrastructure/datacenter, reduces startup costs).
What are some examples of configurable and reliable computing resources mentioned in the NIST definition of cloud computing?
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What is the key feature of cloud computing in terms of consumer management effort and service provider interaction according to the NIST definition?
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