Some heavy hitting cloud providers acknowledge there are differences in public and private service models, as well as what services might be, but they don’t recommended recasting the existing definition carved out by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
In comments on the administration’s Cloud Smart policy, Google said it’s hard to pin down exactly what constitutes a “cloud.” It said the Office of Management and Budget accurately observed that not all outsourced technology services can be included in “cloud,” just because an outside vendor provides them.
