Cloud services are infrastructure, software, and platform, that are hosted by cloud providers and available to users through the internet. delivered on-demand services to organizations and individual customers through the internet.
Cloud services are a range of IT applications and resources that include software as service, infrastructure as service, and platforms as service.
These services are hosted by third-party providers within private, public or hybrid cloud.
Types of cloud Services
SaaS - Software as a Service
SaaS - Software as a Service is a model for distributing on-demand software applications to consumers and users using cloud service. There are various subscription options for users and customer to get benefit, If there is a need of extra resources additional users then that can be available withing minutes. It is the most profitable cloud service model, where customer applications run on a cloud infrastructure.
IaaS - Infrastructure as a Service
IaaS - Infrastructure as a Service is a cloud service model that provides computing resources by a cloud services provider, IaaS is the basic foundation of cloud infrastructure and involves the offer of virtual and physical IT infrastructure and networking features to customers. IaaS is the basic platform to build new technologies and host cloud-based services.
PaaS - Platform as a Service
PaaS - Platform as a Service provider hosts the hardware and software on its own infrastructure, As a result, PaaS provide more time to developers from having to install in-house hardware and software to develop or run a new application, PaaS providers make available a development environment to application developers to develop, test, deliver and manage software applications. The vendors conventionally incorporate standards for development, channels for distribution, and payment mechanisms.
FaaS - Function as a Service
FaaS - Function as a Service are associated with on-demand functionality that enables the supporting infrastructure power up and running within sort span of time, It is easy to power down when there is no need of service, In other word it is event driven functionality that requires minimum development & deployment time to accomplish the business functionality.
FaaS - Function as a Service is a way to implement serverless functionality where developers write business logic that is then executed in containers fully managed by a cloud provider.