Cloud Computing: One Picture and Several Examples
This diagram is from "How the Cloud Changes Software Production", by Seth Eliot, Better Software Magazine, March/April, 2011 - https://bit.ly/seth_cloud_better_software
Figure 1 Cloud Resources by category form a stack
This table is a variation of that included with the "Sticky Notes" for "How the Cloud Changes Software Production", by Seth Eliot, Better Software Magazine, March/April, 2011 - https://bit.ly/seth_cloud_better_software
Cloud Category |
The Cloud handles... |
Examples |
SaaS: Software as a Service |
Application Functionality such as... |
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Mail Clients |
Gmail Hotmail Yahoo Mail Microsoft Outlook Web Access |
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Office Applications |
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Music Storage and Playback |
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PaaS: Platform as a Service |
Relational Database Management Systems |
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Frameworks and Runtimes |
Microsoft Windows Azure - .NET Google App Engine - Java & Python |
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Web Servers (Web Hosting) |
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Content Delivery Network |
Amazon CloudFront Microsoft Windows Azure Content Delivery Network |
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Operating Systems |
Cloud Servers generally come with an OS, so see "Servers" under IaaS below. |
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IaaS: Infrastructure as a Service |
Servers |
Amazon EC2 - Linux Servers Rackspace Cloud Servers - Linux Servers |
Storage |
Amazon S3 - BLOB storage Amazon SDB - Table Storage Microsoft Windows Azure Storage - Both table and BLOB |