Community Clouds

With public and private clouds, the customer could enjoy the services of infrastructure deployed at provider location. If the customer is looking for another infrastructure then they have to look for another provider, or the provider could actually resell the infrastructure of another provider, clouds do not aggregate infrastructures to build up larger, cross-boundary structures.  Smaller enterprises took benefit by deploying clouds as community clouds. Here different entities contribute with their respective (smaller) infrastructure. Community clouds can either aggregate public clouds or dedicated resource infrastructures, i.e. smaller organizations may come together only to pool their resources for building a private community cloud.