Cloud Services Diagram Paper

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For This assignment I am tasked with reviewing a diagram of the ECPI cloud services diagram. In reviewing the diagram, I will be selecting 5 deployments and discussing whether they are SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, or IDaaS. I am also tasked with justifying why I identified the deployments as such and explain my reasoning.
Software as a Service (SaaS) is the most familiar form of cloud computing that most people are familiar with. It encompasses enterprises rather than consumer related web hosted software none as web 2.0. It is maintained by third-party and some examples are Dropbox, Google Apps, and Salesforce. Platform as a Service (PaaS) works at a much lower level than Software as a Service. It provides a platform where software can be developed and …show more content…

Their servers give both hardware and software that is needed for the infrastructure. PaaS model offers services thru the providers platform. PaaS is a variation of SaaS, allowing the development environment as a service, allowing the developers the use of the vendors development environment yet not having to install any on their own systems and still create applications. This being hosted in the cloud and accessed through the internet browser. The developer can also deploy the applications with ease and not have to have any specialized system admin skillsets. Such a provider normally would have their own developed toolkits. They can then provide the service and development access by payments and distribution, which then enables rapid propagation of software applications, that is low cost entry and the ability to leverage the consumer acquisition. ECPI would use a third party and not have to be responsible for developing or creating the platform. PaaS is useful and favorable as it allows the solo developers or the small companies that are just starting up to deploy web based applications without all the high cost and complex tasking of buying and setting up their own servers. PaaS is a benefit that allows more people and companies to develop, maintain and deploy web applications where this was not the case many years