{"id":64761,"date":"2021-07-05T15:51:06","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T21:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/?p=64761"},"modified":"2022-07-13T03:05:54","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T08:35:54","slug":"cloud-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/cloud-computing\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Cloud Computing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Cloud Computing<\/strong> is the term used to describe accessing the resources that are available at the remote locations like servers through millions of clients who are just browsing the content from remote servers. This is a very generic definition for cloud computing, but in reality there are many different types of cloud computing that exist in the technology world. This blog post will try to make you understand cloud computing, different types of cloud computing, popular players in the cloud computing market, etc.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let\u2019s dive into this blog post and we will walk you through all the details about cloud computing.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_76 ez-toc-wrap-left counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #ea7e02;color:#ea7e02\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #ea7e02;color:#ea7e02\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/cloud-computing\/#What_is_Cloud_computing\" >What is Cloud computing?<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/cloud-computing\/#Who_is_using_cloud_computing\" >Who is using cloud computing?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/cloud-computing\/#Types_of_Cloud_Computing_Deployment_Models\" >Types of Cloud Computing Deployment Models<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/cloud-computing\/#Types_of_Cloud_Computing_Services\" >Types of Cloud Computing Services<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/cloud-computing\/#Summary\" >Summary<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_Cloud_computing\"><\/span>What is Cloud computing?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Cloud Computing<\/strong> is accessing IT resources through the internet without storing anything in the local systems. The entire data is kept away in the cloud also known as <\/span><b>data centers <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">which are very very huge in size. Data centers are nothing but a million servers stored in a single location to maintain the huge amount of data.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Literally everything like storage, database, computing power, etc. can be accessed through the internet and users have to only pay as per the usage pattern. <\/span><b>The major advantage of cloud computing is to reduce the cost for companies from buying thousands of servers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, instead they can purchase the servers online and return them when they don\u2019t need it.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Who_is_using_cloud_computing\"><\/span>Who is using cloud computing?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Almost everyone on this planet is connected through cloud resources. If you are using your mobile for accessing your email, posting a photo on instagram, working in a company to chat with your colleagues, etc. Everything is now moved to the cloud and you can not build any applications without depending on cloud resources.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Types_of_Cloud_Computing_Deployment_Models\"><\/span>Types of Cloud Computing Deployment Models<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are four types of cloud computing deployment models:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Private Cloud<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Public Cloud<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hybrid Cloud<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Multi Cloud<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4>Private Cloud<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Private Cloud is a cloud computing environment where it is completely dedicated to a customer. Only that customer would have access to the cloud. This would still have the features and benefits of the public cloud infrastructure, with the exception of being accessed only by a single customer. Organizations uses this type of cloud for the following reasons:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Data Security<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Privacy<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regulatory Compliance<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Public Cloud<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Public Cloud is most common and it\u2019s accessible to everyone. Here the computing infrastructure is shared among all the users who are storing their data in the public cloud. However, the public cloud also has a high amount of data security and privacy because every user would have individual user accounts. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is an example of public cloud where everyone can store their data in their own AWS account.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Hybrid Cloud<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hybrid Cloud is the combination of Private and Public clouds. This is most widely used because no one completely relies on the public cloud.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Multi Cloud<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Multi Cloud is the combination of different vendor services used for various purposes. For example, you can use EC2 instances from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure Database for MySQL from Microsoft Azure. This is very common practice for any bigger organizations to use multiple cloud solutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Types_of_Cloud_Computing_Services\"><\/span>Types of Cloud Computing Services<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are three major types of cloud computing that are most widely used across the internet. These are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Platform as a Service (PaaS)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Software as a Service (SaaS)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4>Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is a most significant type of cloud computing. In this type, users can build their own infrastructure and network to manage their entire organisation&#8217;s IT needs. This is the most flexible and greater power for any company to set-up their own infrastructure in the cloud. The following are the popular examples for IaaS:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/amazon-web-services\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon Web Services (AWS)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Microsoft Azure<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Google Cloud<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IBM Cloud<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oracle Cloud<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alibaba Cloud\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4>Platform as a Service (PaaS)<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Platform as a Service (PaaS) allows you to manage and deploy your applications. In simple terms, you can use PaaS to host your applications on the cloud. The PaaS solution would comprises of:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u200b\u200bDevelopment tools\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Middleware\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Operating systems\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Database management\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Infrastructure<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following are some of the examples for PaaS:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dokku<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Google App Engine<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Salesforce Lightning<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IBM Cloud Foundry<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Red Hat OpenShift<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zoho Creator<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cloudways<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4>Software as a Service (SaaS)<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Software as a Services (SaaS) is a most popular delivery model of the applications to customers. In this concept, SaaS providers would host the application (software) and rent the users to purchase the software from online. This is very much cost saving for the organizations to build their own applications instead they will buy the software for monthly or yearly subscription basis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most of the SaaS softwares is sold as a monthly or yearly subscription model.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here is the some examples of SaaS:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dropbox<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zoho<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hubspot<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lunarpen<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Slack<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Summary\"><\/span>Summary<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>In this blog post, we have written and explain more about the basic concepts of what is cloud computing and different types of cloud computing. If you have any questions, please send us a message. You can also browse our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/library\/\">training library<\/a> to purchase and enhance your skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud Computing is the term used to describe accessing the resources that are available at the remote locations like servers through millions of clients who are just browsing the content from remote servers. This is a very generic definition for cloud computing, but in reality there are many different types of cloud computing that exist in the technology world. 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