Cloud computing

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Cloud computing
Services and solution that are delivered and comsumed in rel time over internet are cloud services.
When you store your photos online ,use webmail or a social network site,you are using a 'cloud computing' service.
Cloud computing characteristics and benefits
Cloud computing boasts several attractive benefits for businesses and end users. Five of the main benefits of cloud computing are:
•   Self-service provisioning: End users can spin up compute resources for almost any type of workload on demand. This eliminates the traditional need for IT administrators to provision and manage compute resources.
•   Elasticity: Companies can scale up as computing needs increase and scale down again as demands decrease. This eliminates the need for massive investments in local infrastructure, which may or may not remain active.
•   Pay per use: Compute resources are measured at a granular level, enabling users to pay only for the resources and workloads they use.
•   Workload resilience: Cloud service providers often implement redundant resources to ensure resilient storage and to keep users' important workloads running -- often across multiple global regions.
•   Migration flexibility: Organizations can move certain workloads to or from the cloud -- or to different cloud platforms -- as desired or automatically for better cost savings or to use new services as they emerge.