6. Stakeholders in cloud computing
In a traditional computing setup, the main stakeholders are the
providers and consumers: the consumers use, own, maintain, and
upgrade the systems while the providers deal with the sale,
installation, licensing, consulting and maintenance of the technology
involved. Cloud computing changes the roles of the traditional
stakeholders and adds new ones. These stakeholders include not
only the providers and the recipients of the service, but also, due tothe unique nature of the delivery model for the service, the regulators
who need to understand the impact of the location of the
infrastructure of the service providers. We discuss these stakeholders
briefly below.