Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is a recent term used for the delivery of computing as a service and not as a product. The term came from the use of a cloud image to represent the internet or large networked area. Cloud computing has three characteristics namely; it is sold on demand by minute or the hour, a user can have as much or as little of a service as they want at any time and lastly, the service is managed by the provider. A cloud computing can be either private or public.

I believe the cloud in the cloud computing is because the end user does not know how the products gets to him/her. Like the electricity supply, the end users do not know the location of the system that delivers the service.

An example of a public cloud is Amazon Web services. Amazon is known to sell services to anyone on the internet. Also the Gas company and the electricity company. For Amazon, customers order stuff on the internet, the stuff would arrive within 2 to 3 days. The customers have no knowledge all the steps the products go through before arriving at the destination.