When the idea is to focus mainly on the core business processes rather than computing resources, data security and infrastructure development and maintenance, we think of cloud services. Cloud services encompasses the myriad IT resources provided over the internet.
A cloud service is any service made available to users on demand via internet or cloud. Cloud services provides greate benefits by providing better: speed, scalability, security & efficient use of resources.
Based on offering, cloud services can broadly be divided as:
1. IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service)
2. PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service)
3. SaaS (Software-as-a-Service)
Based on a deployment model, we can classify cloud as:
1. Public
2. Private
3. Hybrid
4. Community cloud