A regional consortium runs shared analytics on capacity owned by a cloud provider, under contracts and controls the cities accept. Which ownership model is that?
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Short Explanation
Public cloud means you rent the provider’s shared mall of capacity under contract—not your own sealed basement. Consortiums often do this for regional analytics with policy controls layered on. Ownership sits with the provider; governance sits with the cities.
Full Explanation
In the public cloud ownership model, a third-party provider owns the underlying infrastructure and customers consume it over the network under contractual and security controls. Regional civic consortia commonly use this pattern for shared analytics accounts. Private air-gapped ownership, ad-hoc laptop pools, and offline tape archives describe different models. Chapter 9 expects recognition of public cloud as one ownership option for Big Data.