Cloud computing benefits. Users can scale services to fit their needs, customize applications, and access cloud services from anywhere with an Internet connection. Enterprise users can get applications to market quickly without worrying about underlying infrastructure costs or maintenance.

With hybrid cloud, there is a shared responsibility security model. While the public cloud provider maintains their hardened and secured infrastructure and application offerings, the customer is responsible for the security within their own infrastructure and applications along with access management controls to ensure only the appropriate individu

Clouds are connected through APIs in a technical sense and through partnerships in a business sense. Private cloud vendors sometimes offer public cloud services or public cloud vendors often partner with private cloud vendors to create hybrid clouds.