AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner / What is Cloud Computing

The Different Types Of Cloud Computing

🌩️ Types of Cloud Computing

As the service type changes, the amount you need to manage decreases. In the diagram, blue chips represents components managed by you, while orange chips represents components handled by the cloud provider.

  • Provide building blocks for cloud IT

  • Provides networking, computers, data storage space

  • Highest level of flexibility

  • Easy parallel with traditional on-premises IT

✅ Example :

  • Amazon EC2 (on AWS)

  • GCP, Azure, Rackspace, Digital Ocean, Linode

  • Removes the need for your organization to manage the underlying infrastructure

  • Focus on the deployment and management of your applications

✅ Example :

  • Elastic Beanstalk (on AWS)

  • Heroku, Google App Engine (GCP), Windows Azure (Microsoft)

  • Completed product that is run and managed by the service provider

✅ Example :

  • Many AWS services (e.g., Rekognition for Machine Learning)

  • Google Apps (Gmail), Dropbox, Zoom