Users, Roles, and Organisations #

Cloud Provider #

An entity that provides cloud computing services. Providers may offer its services directly to Consumers or do so through a third party, such as an Intermediary Provider or Broker. See also Broker, Intermediary Provider, and Primary Provider.

Source: NIST Cloud Computing Security Reference Architecture

Cloud Consumer #

An organization that uses, or consumes, cloud services. Cloud Consumers are ultimately responsible for ensuring the security and compliance of the cloud services they use.

Source: NIST Cloud Computing Security Reference Architecture

CloudSocket Provider #

Organization installing, executing and managing a CloudSocket instance on a given owned or rented (i.e. cloud-based) infrastructure under its own control.

A CloudSocket Provider is paid by the Customers, and pays the ExternalService Providers. 

FHOSTER refers to CloudSocket Provider as 'Cloud Socket Instance Provider'

External Service Provider #

Organization installing, executing and managing a WS Instance on a given infrastructure under its own control. An External Service Provider autonomously defines a SLA for the External Service; He is responsible to fulfill such SLA, and is paid according to the usage of the External Service he provides.

FHOSTER refers to External Service Provider as 'Service Instance Provider'

Business Process Modeller #

Organization using the CloudSocket Design Environment to create a Business Process model and populate the Marketplace of a CloudSocket Instance. Executable Business Providers may provide an implementation to such a Business Process Model. 

In such a case, the CloudSocket provider may pay further royalty to the Business Process Modeller when an Executable Business Publisher is paid.

Executable Process Publisher #

Organization using the BPaaS Design Environment to create an Executable Business Process Models and populate the Marketplace of a CloudSocket Instance. The Cloud Socket Provider might pay a royalty to the EPP when one of its Executable Business Process Models is actually used by a Broker to deliver a Cloudlet to a Customer.

Open Question: are there multiple Brokers per CloudSocket Instance?