Cloud Computing (2024-2025)-SEM-II

Microsoft: Windows Azure Microsoft Azure, often just called Azure , is a cloud computing platform and cloud service created by Microsoft. It provides a wide range of services like computing power, storage, networking, databases, artificial intelligence (AI), and many other tools, all hosted on Microsoft-managed data centers. Cloud computing, in simple terms, is when you use computing resources (like servers and storage) over the internet instead of having to own and maintain physical hardware on-site. Azure is one of the largest and most popular platforms for cloud computing, alongside Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud.   Types of Cloud Services Provided by Azure: Azure offers three main types of cloud services that businesses and developers can use: ·       Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS): ·       This provides users with virtualized computing resources over the internet. Azure offers virtual machines (VMs) ...

 Amazon  - Elastic Cloud Compute(EC2) T his is the basic structure of  AWS EC2 , where  EC2  stands for Elastic Compute Cloud. EC2 allow users to use virtual machines of different configurations as per their requirement. It allows various configuration options, mapping of individual server, various pricing options, etc. We will discuss these in detail in AWS Products section. Following is the diagrammatic representation of the architecture. In the above diagram  S3  stands for Simple Storage Service. It allows the users to store and retrieve various types of data using API calls. It doesn’t contain any computing element Amazon EC2 is a service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that allows users to run virtual servers, known as instances, in the cloud. These servers can be used to run applications, store data, or perform computations without the need for physical hardware. Amazon EC2 provides scalable computing capacity, allowing users to la...