Which of the following roles is responsible for peering with other cloud services and providers?

Question

Options

• ACloud auditor
• BInter-cloud provider
• CCloud service broker
• DCloud service developer

• B
  94% (33)
• C
  3% (1)
• D
  3% (1)

Explanation

Inter-cloud provider (B) is correct because this role specifically handles the technical and business relationships between cloud ecosystems - establishing peering agreements, interconnects, and interoperability with other cloud services and providers.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A (Cloud auditor) - evaluates and verifies compliance, security, and performance of cloud services; not involved in peering or interconnection.
• C (Cloud service broker) - acts as an intermediary between cloud consumers and providers, managing use agreements and aggregating services, but doesn't establish provider-to-provider peering.
• D (Cloud service developer) - builds and deploys applications or services on cloud platforms; this is a development role, not a networking/interconnection role.

Memory tip: Think of "inter-cloud" literally - the inter prefix means "between," so an inter-cloud provider operates between clouds, bridging them together. If you remember internet peering (how ISPs connect to each other), inter-cloud peering follows the same concept, just at the cloud-provider level.

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