In reply to Jaap karman.

Thank you for your kind words, Jaap.
Indeed, standards about security and hardening are also very interesting, whether in the cloud or not.
But in this particular series of post, I am only looking at the NIST definitions related to cloud computing.
And trying to express them in ways that are a less dry than the actual NIST definitions.

With that said, I don't doubt that the era of cloud will put a renewed emphasis on security concerns, and force improvements that will benefit both cloud and non-cloud environments.