{"id":12599,"date":"2014-10-20T05:37:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T05:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viewmyprojects.com\/winwirewp\/?p=12599"},"modified":"2023-11-29T14:05:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T14:05:07","slug":"cloud-computing-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viewmyprojects.com\/winwirewp\/blog\/cloud-computing-what-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: What You Need to Know!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There is a lot of confusion in the industry when it comes to the cloud, while different terms like Platform as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service, and Software as a Service are also adding to the confusion. Cloud computing provides on-demand access to computing resources\u2014 infrastructure, applications, and data storage. This is the most commonly used taxonomy for differentiating between types of cloud services. The industry has defined three categories of services:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 IaaS \u2013 a set of infrastructure level capabilities such as an operating system, network connectivity, etc. that are delivered as pay for use services and can be used to host applications.
\u2022 PaaS \u2013 higher level sets of functionality that are delivered as consumable services for developers who are building applications. PaaS is about abstracting developers from the underlying infrastructure to enable applications to quickly be composed.
\u2022 SaaS \u2013 applications that are delivered using a service delivery model where organizations can simply consume and use the application. Typically an organization would pay for the use of the application or the application could be monetized through ad revenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is important to note that these 3 types of services may exist independently of one another or combined with one another. Along with these, we also have packaged software that helps a customer in managing the entire stack \u2013 ranging from the network connectivity to the applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 With Infrastructure as a Service, the lower levels of the stack are managed by a vendor. Some of these components can be provided by traditional hosts \u2013 in fact most of them have moved to having a virtualized offering.
\u2022 Very few actually provide an OS
\u2022 The customer is still responsible for managing the OS through the Applications<\/a>.
\u2022 For the developer, an obvious benefit with IaaS is that it frees the developer from many concerns when provisioning physical or virtual machines.
\u2022 This was one of the earliest and primary use cases for Amazon Web Services Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2).
\u2022 Developers were able to readily provision virtual machines (AMIs) on EC2, develop and test solutions and, often, run the results \u2018in production\u2019.
\u2022 The only requirement was a credit card to pay for the services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 With Platform as a Service, everything from the network connectivity through the runtime is provided and managed by the platform vendor.
\u2022 The Microsoft Azure<\/a> best fits in this category today.
\u2022 In fact because we don\u2019t provide access to the underlying virtualization or operating system today, we\u2019re often referred to as not providing IaaS.
\u2022 PaaS offerings further reduce the developer burden by additionally supporting the platform runtime and related application services.
\u2022 With PaaS, the developer can, almost immediately, begin creating the business logic for an application.
\u2022 Potentially, the increases in productivity are considerable and, because the hardware and operational aspects of the cloud platform are also managed by the cloud platform provider, applications can quickly be taken from an idea to reality very quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Software-as-a-Service (IaaS)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u2022Finally, with SaaS, a vendor provides the application and abstracts you from all of the underlying components.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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