The IONOS Compute Engine is a so-called public cloud and offers infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service.
Unlike a private cloud, the public cloud offers services available to the general public and not exclusively for a specific organization. A private cloud is either operated by the organization itself or provided exclusively by a service provider for this specific organization.
The use of a public cloud can be restricted by strict legal data protection regulations or by security concerns. In certain industries, regulation prohibits the transfer of data to external service providers who do not meet the strict data protection requirements. In such cases, either the IONOS Compute Engine (with maximum security under the US Cloud Act), a private cloud, or a hybrid cloud (a mixture of private and public clouds), is the best option.
The hybrid cloud offers combined access to the services of a public cloud and a private cloud depending on the requirements of the respective application. Compared to the public cloud, an advantage of the private cloud is that the performance of the services is influenced even less by other customers than in the kernel-centered virtualization of the IONOS Compute Engine.