NIST cloud bingo

Exercise and reference answers

Clues and terms

1. Clue

   Provision capability yourself, with no human on the provider side.

   Item

   Self-service

2. Clue

   Reached over the network by thin and thick clients alike.

   Item

   Network access

3. Clue

   One pool of resources serving many consumers at once.

   Item

   Pooling

4. Clue

   Scaling outward and inward to match demand, sometimes automatically.

   Item

   Elasticity

5. Clue

   Resource use controlled and optimised through metering.

   Item

   Measured

6. Clue

   The model by which pooled resources serve many consumers.

   Item

   Multi-tenant

7. Clue

   You use the provider's applications and configure little.

   Item

   SaaS

8. Clue

   You deploy your own applications onto the provider's platform.

   Item

   PaaS

9. Clue

   You provision processing, storage and networks yourself.

   Item

   IaaS

Instructions

Read each clue and tap the term it describes.

Explanation