The following characteristics are common to the majority of cloud environments, except: 1. on-demand usage 2. resiliency measured usage 3. multitenancy 4. availblitliy 5. elasticity

Answer: 4. Availblitliy is not a major characteristic.

Explanation:

-Manufacturing organization can provide additional computing resources without going through the cloud service provider.

-Multi-tenancy allows multiple customers to share the same applications/the same physical infrastructure while retaining privacy and security over their information.

-Cloud computing resources usage is metered and organizations pay accordingly for what they have used.

-Elasticity is a landmark of cloud computing and it implies that organizations can rapidly provision and de-provision any of the cloud computing resources.