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Cloud computing

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What is Cloud Computing? | Amazon Web Services

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What is Cloud Computing?

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Computer Basics: What Is the Cloud?

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What is cloud computing? | Accenture

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What is Cloud Computing | Introduction to Cloud Computing | Edureka

Cloud computing is an information technology (IT) paradigm that enables ubiquitous access to shared pools of configurable system resources and higher-level services that can be rapidly provisioned with minimal management effort, often over the Internet. Cloud computing relies on sharing of resources to achieve coherence and economies of scale, similar to a public utility.
  • History 

  • Early history 

  • 2000s 

  • 2010s 

  • Similar concepts 

  • Characteristics 

  • Service models 

  • Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) 

  • Platform as a service (PaaS) 

  • Software as a service (SaaS) 

  • Mobile "backend" as a service (MBaaS) 

  • Serverless computing 

  • Function as a service (FaaS) 

  • Private cloud 

  • Public cloud 

  • Hybrid cloud 

  • Community cloud 

  • Big Data cloud 

  • HPC cloud 

  • Architecture 

  • Cloud engineering 

  • Security and privacy 

  • Limitations and disadvantages 

  • Emerging trends