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The provisioning of services in a timely on-demand manner and allow scaling up and down of resources is called as cloud computing.

Cloud architecture is defined from the perspectives of cloud consumers, cloud providers and cloud brokers.

Cloud computing implies access to remote computing services offered by third parties via a TCP/IP connection to the public internet.

It is a style of computing in which resources are provided “as a service” over the internet to users who needs not have

knowledge of, expertise in, or control over the technology infrastructure that supports them.

A cloud service has 3 different characteristics

● Sold on demand

● Elastic behavior

• Fully managed by the provider.

For example, “Google Apps” provides common business application online that are accessed from a web browser, while the software & data are stored on the internet servers.