Types of cloud computing services
According to their location:
a) Public clouds, which can be free or paid, and are available to anyone who is interested in using them.
b) Private clouds, which make use of in-house servers to store the company data.
c) Hybrid clouds, which are a combination of public and private clouds. Some companies prefer to use in-house servers to store sensitive data, and public clouds, which are cost-effective and easier to maintain, to archive and store less important data.
d) Community clouds, which are the result of a collaborative effort. In this case, several organization share their cloud computing resources, managing them together.
According to the offered service:
a) IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), is the lowest-level cloud computing service, providing the needed infrastructure that is required by an external application. IaaS is a cost-effective solution for projects which require a huge computing power, large scale data backups, etc.
b) PaaS (Platform as a Service) is used as a basic platform which allows the users to build custom applications, providing them the needed hardware, an operating system and several software development tools.
c) SaaS (Software as a Service) is a high-level cloud computing service. With this option, a fully functional application can be accessed through a web browser. Office 365 is one of Microsoft's SaaS products, for example.
a) Public clouds, which can be free or paid, and are available to anyone who is interested in using them.
b) Private clouds, which make use of in-house servers to store the company data.
c) Hybrid clouds, which are a combination of public and private clouds. Some companies prefer to use in-house servers to store sensitive data, and public clouds, which are cost-effective and easier to maintain, to archive and store less important data.
d) Community clouds, which are the result of a collaborative effort. In this case, several organization share their cloud computing resources, managing them together.
According to the offered service:
a) IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), is the lowest-level cloud computing service, providing the needed infrastructure that is required by an external application. IaaS is a cost-effective solution for projects which require a huge computing power, large scale data backups, etc.
b) PaaS (Platform as a Service) is used as a basic platform which allows the users to build custom applications, providing them the needed hardware, an operating system and several software development tools.
c) SaaS (Software as a Service) is a high-level cloud computing service. With this option, a fully functional application can be accessed through a web browser. Office 365 is one of Microsoft's SaaS products, for example.
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