A small town consumes email and file sync entirely from a multi-tenant provider over the internet with no city-owned compute for those services. Which deployment model is this?
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Short Explanation
The town is renting seats on the big shared playground the provider owns — that is public cloud. Multi-tenant email and sync over the internet is the textbook picture. Private would mean the town's own dedicated stack.
Full Explanation
Public cloud deployment uses provider-owned infrastructure shared among multiple tenants and accessed over the network, which matches SaaS-style email and file sync with no customer-owned compute for those services. Private and community models imply dedicated or consortium-shared infrastructure. Air-gapped labs are not public cloud.