2.2.3 ‘Cloud Service Provider’ (‘CSP’) shall mean any Person providing
Cloud Services to the public either directly or indirectly, such as a
Cloud Provider, Cloud Broker, Cloud Aggregator, reseller or agent
of a Cloud Provider, whereby:
2.2.3.1 ‘Cloud Provider’ shall mean any Person providing Cloud
Services to the public through Datacenters it owns and/or
manages itself, in whole or in part.
2.2.3.2 ‘Cloud Broker’ shall mean any Person that acts as an
intermediary between one or more CSPs and Cloud
Customers.
2.2.3.3 ‘Cloud Aggregator’ shall mean a type of Cloud Broker that
packages and integrates several Cloud Services into one or
more composite services that it offers to Cloud Customers.
2.2.4 ‘Cloud Customer’ shall mean any Person to which a CSP agrees to
provide Cloud Services based on a Cloud Contract or other
business relationship between the CSP and that Person.
2.2.5 ‘Cloud User’ shall mean any individual person making use of a CSP’s
Cloud Services provided to a Cloud Customer, based on a
relationship between that Cloud Customer and the Cloud User. An
individual person can be both a Cloud User and a Cloud Customer
if the Cloud Contract is concluded for the provision of Cloud
Computing Services to a single Cloud User.
2.2.6 ‘Cloud Contract’ shall mean an agreement for the provision of Cloud
Services, concluded between a CSP and a Cloud Customer.
2.2.7 ‘Cloud System’ shall mean an electronic information system
comprising hardware, software and networking elements that are
owned, controlled, operated, leased or otherwise relied on by a
CSP to supply Cloud Services to Cloud Customers. A Cloud System
may comprise one or more Datacenters, among other elements.
2.2.8 ‘Public Cloud’ shall mean a Cloud System provisioned for open use
by the public.
2.2.9 ‘Community Cloud’ shall be a Cloud System provisioned for the
exclusive use of a closed group of Cloud Customers sharing certain
social, business, administrative or other objectives.
2.2.10 ‘Private Cloud’ shall mean a Cloud System provisioned for the
exclusive use of a single Cloud Customer.
2.2.11 ‘Hybrid Cloud’ shall mean a combination of two or more Cloud
Systems (Private, Public and/or Community Clouds) that are bound
together by standardized or proprietary technology that enables
data and application portability.
2.2.12 ‘Datacenter’ shall mean a facility consisting of computing
infrastructure and supporting components, which are housed in the
Cloud Computing Regulatory Framework
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