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Software as a Service | SaaS
SaaS is also known as “On-Demand Software“. It is a software distribution model in which services are hosted by a cloud service provider. These services are available to end-users over the internet so, the end-users do not need to install any software on their devices to access these services. There are the following services provided…
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Platform as a Service | PaaS
Platform as a Service (PaaS) provides a runtime environment. It allows programmers to easily create, test, run, and deploy web applications. You can purchase these applications from a cloud service provider on a pay-as-per use basis and access them using the Internet connection. In PaaS, back end scalability is managed by the cloud service provider,…
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Infrastructure as a Service | IaaS
Iaas is also known as Hardware as a Service (HaaS). It is one of the layers of the cloud computing platform. It allows customers to outsource their IT infrastructures such as servers, networking, processing, storage, virtual machines, and other resources. Customers access these resources on the Internet using a pay-as-per use model. In traditional hosting services,…
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Cloud Service Models
There are the following three types of cloud service models – Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Platform as a Service (PaaS) Software as a Service (SaaS) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) IaaS is also known as Hardware as a Service (HaaS). It is a computing infrastructure managed over the internet. The main advantage of using IaaS…
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Community Cloud
Community cloud is a cloud infrastructure that allows systems and services to be accessible by a group of several organizations to share the information. It is owned, managed, and operated by one or more organizations in the community, a third party, or a combination of them. Example: Our government organization within India may share computing infrastructure…
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Hybrid Cloud
Hybrid cloud is a combination of public and private clouds.Hybrid cloud = public cloud + private cloud The main aim to combine these cloud (Public and Private) is to create a unified, automated, and well-managed computing environment. In the Hybrid cloud, non-critical activities are performed by the public cloud and critical activities are performed by the private cloud. Mainly, a hybrid cloud is used…
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Private Cloud
Private cloud is also known as an internal cloud or corporate cloud. Private cloud provides computing services to a private internal network (within the organization) and selected users instead of the general public. Private cloud provides a high level of security and privacy to data through firewalls and internal hosting. It also ensures that operational and sensitive data are not accessible to third-party providers. HP Data…
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Public Cloud
Public Cloud provides a shared platform that is accessible to the general public through an Internet connection. Public cloud operated on the pay-as-per-use model and administrated by the third party, i.e., Cloud service provider. In the Public cloud, the same storage is being used by multiple users at the same time. Public cloud is owned, managed, and operated by businesses, universities, government organizations, or a combination…
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Types of Cloud
There are the following 4 types of cloud that you can deploy according to the organization’s needs- Public Cloud Private Cloud Hybrid Cloud Community Cloud Public Cloud Public cloud is open to all to store and access information via the Internet using the pay-per-usage method. In public cloud, computing resources are managed and operated by the Cloud…
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What are the Security Risks of Cloud Computing
Cloud computing provides various advantages, such as improved collaboration, excellent accessibility, Mobility, Storage capacity, etc. But there are also security risks in cloud computing. Some most common Security Risks of Cloud Computing are given below- Data Loss Data loss is the most common cloud security risks of cloud computing. It is also known as data…
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