What is Cloud computing? [closed]

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First, to get this out of the way: Cloud Computing is a marketing buzzword and ill-defined one (at least at the moment).

I would recommend dissecting this overarching buzzword and in market segments, namely:

  • IaaS: Infrastructure as a Service (e.g. Amazon EC2)
  • Paas: Platform as a Service (e.g. Google AppEngine)
  • DaaS: Database as a Service (e.g. Amazon RDS)
  • SaaS: Software as a Service (e.g. Salesforce)

Coming back to your points:

  1. If you expose a Service through a Web Interface, you could classify this in the Cloud Computing bin
  2. Traditional Web Sites per-se would not fall in the CC category (see above segments)
  3. I do not know what a “Cloud Application” is: are you trying to define a new term ? 😉

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