Question

What is cloud computing? Explain different types of cloud services

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Answer 1

the practice of using a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer

Answer 2

To be precise, cloud computing is the delivery of computing services like servers, storages and more over the Internet. The companies that offer these computing services are called cloud providers. They charge for cloud computing services based on usage.

Cloud computing is usually classified on the basis of location, or on the service that the cloud is offering.

Based on a cloud location, we can classify cloud as:

Public,

Private,

Hybrid

Community Cloud

Based on a service that the cloud is offering, we classify as:

IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service)

PaaS(Platform-as-a-Service)

SaaS(Software-as-a-Service)

or, Storage, Database, Information, Process, Application, Integration, Security, Management, Testing-as-a-service