Agenda Digitale: The Five Pillars of the Cloud According to NIST – A Compass for Businesses and Public Administrations
Source: Agenda Digitale, published on June 16th, 2025 By Lokesh Vij, Professor of Cloud Computing Infrastructure, Cloud Development, Cloud Computing Automation and Ops and Cloud Data Stacks at OPIT – Open Institute of Technology NIST identifies five key characteristics of cloud computing: on-demand self-service, network access, resource pooling, elasticity, and metered service. These pillars explain […]








