Cloud computing has revolutionized IT infrastructure, eliminated hardware and software costs, and allowed customers to access these resources through the Internet. Cloud computing resources include physical and virtual services, applications, data storage, development tools, artificial intelligence services and virtual machines.

Over the past 20 years, public cloud architectures have transformed the process and approach to software deployment, bringing tremendous convenience and efficiency to customer access to software. However, there are still government and commercial customers who, for a variety of reasons, have to accept private software environments over which they maintain full control.