Cloud computing delivers on-demand computing services—including servers, storage, databases, networking, software, and analytics—over the internet. Users access...
Cloud computing is the delivery of on-demand computing services—including servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence—over the Internet ('the cloud'). Instead of owning physical infrastructure, you access these services from a third-party provider.
Key benefits include cost savings (no large upfront hardware investments), increased scalability, enhanced flexibility, improved data security measures from providers, and better collaboration tools for teams.
The main deployment models are Public Cloud (services offered over the public internet), Private Cloud (dedicated infrastructure for a single organization), and Hybrid Cloud (a combination of public and private clouds).
The three main service models are Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS), each offering different levels of managed services.