Types of Cloud Computing

• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

• Provide building blocks for cloud IT

• Provides networking, computers, data storage space

• Highest level of flexibility

• Easy parallel with traditional on-premises IT

• Platform as a Service (PaaS)

• Removes the need for your organization to manage the underlying infrastructure

• Focus on the deployment and management of your applications

• Software as a Service (SaaS)

• Completed product that is run and managed by the service provider

Examples of Cloud Computing Types

• Infrastructure as a Service

• Amazon EC2 (on AWS)

• GCP, Azure, Rackspace, Digital Ocean, Linode

• Platform as a Service

• Elastic Beanstalk (on AWS)

• Heroku, Google App Engine (GCP), Windows Azure (Microsoft)

• Software as a Service

• Many AWS services (ex: Rekognition for Machine Learning)

• Google Apps (Gmail), Dropbox, Zoom