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What is a private cloud?

A private cloud is a cloud environment dedicated to one organisation. How isolated it is, who operates it and where the data sits depend on the service.

By Marella AI · Updated 21 Aug 2026

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Where this one gets misread

Private describes tenancy, not location and not control. A private cloud can still be operated by a third party, sit in another jurisdiction, and have vendor staff holding access. All three are compatible with the word.

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Questions to ask

Ask for a worked example on your own material, and the evidence needed to reproduce it.

  • Who operates it?
  • In which jurisdiction does it sit?
  • Which vendor staff can reach it, under what process?
  • What, if anything, is shared with other customers?
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How Marella uses the term

We use “Private cloud” only where a product mechanism or an evaluation method backs it up, and we say when the behaviour depends on how a deployment is configured.

  • Backed by a product mechanism or an evaluation method
  • Deployment differences flagged

Caveats

  1. B1A definition is not a claim about how the product performs.
  2. B2Vendor implementations vary.
  3. B3Test the term against a representative workflow.

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