Commercial clouds | Private, academic, and community clouds | Federated hybrid clouds | |
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Examples | Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, T-Systems, Seven Bridges Genomics | The Embassy Cloud at the European Bioinformatics Institute of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory [51] | The public–private partnership model of the Helix Nebula Science Cloud Initiative in Europe [38] |
Accessibility | Accessible to the public | Locally managed cloud resource; access is limited to a particular community of users | Federated access to locally managed and commercially available off-site cloud resources through the use of joint interoperable protocols |
Benefits | Provide on-demand access to competitive large-scale data storage; have the computational and networking resources to scale processing; can readily store non-data privacy critical (parts of) datasets | Provide on-demand access to well-defined and well-managed data storage and computing infrastructure; provide tightly controlled data access, including to data that cannot be transferred across the internet | Federated model helps to differentiate personal data attributability and limit donor re-identification; service brokerage supports the matching of data and processing requirements (for example, certification, data security, interoperability, legislation, and geographic location) against a defined catalogue of services offered by connected providers |