About public cloud services
Find out about public cloud services and how government organisations use these services to work more productively.
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Public cloud versus other types of cloud
Scale and secure NZ government information by using resources that are set up, owned and maintained by a third-party provider.
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Benefits of using public cloud services
Public cloud services provide scalable, secure and highly resilient infrastructure tools and web applications. There are immediate and long-term benefits to government organisations using them.
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Essential characteristics of cloud services
These are part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s definition of cloud computing. Public cloud services, like the other types of cloud services, must show these characteristics.
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Service models for public cloud
Most of the services you can use with public cloud are delivered as either infrastructure, platform or software — IaaS, PaaS, SaaS.
