Cloud Computing
• Enables
individuals and organizations to use IT resources as a service over network
• Enables
self-service requesting and automates request-fulfillment process
8 Enables
users to scale up or scale down the usage of computing resources quickly
• Enables
consumption-based metering
8 Consumers
pay only for the resources they use
8 Example:
CPU hours used, amount of data transferred, and Gigabytes of data stored
