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Cloud computing is the use of a 3rd party service(Web Services) to perform computing needs. Here Cloud depicts Internet. With cloud computing, companies can scale up to massive capacities in an instant without having to invest in new infrastructure. Cloud computing is benefit to small and medium-sized businesses. Cloud hosting is self-service, billed hourly or monthly, and controlled via a web interface or API.
Amazon EC2 (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud) is a web service offered by Amazon that allows customers/business to run applications in the Amazon computing environment. “Ec2″ is a commercial web service which lets customers to rent computing resources from Amazon computing cloud.
Instead of managing their own servers, companies can increase capacity or add new web features by purchasing more gigabytes through EC2. Server outsourcing through Amazon EC2 will poteltially save companies hardware costs and time.
Microsoft has disclosed pricing on its Windows Azure services, cloud computing platform as a service. Here is the Microsoft’s prices for Azure services (Windows Azure , SQL Azure and .Net Services).
Microsoft’s Azure Services Platform is a cloud platform (cloud computing platform as a service)
Windows Azure:
Cloud computing relies on sharing hardware and software resources over a network rather than on local servers or personal devices.
A public cloud is offered as a service via web applications/web services( usually over an Internet connection). Private cloud and internal cloud are deployed inside the firewall and managed by the user organization.
CloudBerry Explorer makes managing files in Amazon S3 hosting service storage easy. CloudBerry Explorer provides a user interface to Amazon S3 accounts, files, and buckets, CloudBerry lets you manage your files on cloud just as you would on your own local computer. CloudBerry Explorer allows you to move large files such as photos, videos, and music to Amazon S3 and free up your local storage.