Resource pooling

Measured service

Rapid elasticity

Broad network access

Consumer has control over the operating systems and the deployed applications

Consumer only has control over user-specific application configuration settings

Consumer has control over network devices, compute systems, and storage systems

Consumer only has control over the configuration settings of the application-hosting environment

Consumer has control over the deployed applications

Consumer has control over the operating system and database management system

Consumer has control over the programming languages and tools

Consumer has control over the operating system and storage

Enabling data-driven decisions from large volumes of data

Storing large volumes of data without affecting availability

Reducing the data storage capacity requirement

Performing analytics using traditional tools

Meaning of the data changes constantly

Data is generated in different formats by numerous sources

Data change rate affects its timely analysis

Varying data quality affects its reliability and accuracy