Provisioning in Cloud Computing is the process of on demand self service on pay as you go model to get new services or scale existing services as per need.
Thin Provisioning refers to a cost-saving method of providing storage in virtualized storage environments. Thin provisioning has several advantages over traditional. Full provisioning is designed in traditional provisioning to used the full capacity of an external hard drive for a given application, providing the application a good potential, but often translating into reduced utilization rates, a problem that increases costs and this can be addressed with thin provisioning.