ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) Practice Question

A cloud service broker acts as an intermediary between one or more cloud service providers and cloud service customers. Its typical responsibilities include aggregating or integrating multiple services, providing a single management or self-service interface, adding value such as workload placement guidance, negotiating contracts, and consolidating billing. Because the firm in the scenario performs exactly these functions without delivering the cloud services itself, it fits the broker role. A cloud service provider would run the infrastructure; a cloud service customer is the enterprise that consumes the services; and a regulator is an external authority that enforces compliance-not an operational intermediary.