Cloud Computing For Beginners

Discover how software as a service delivers cloud applications that run remotely for multiple organizations. Each customer shares a single application instance while keeping data separate and secure.

Compare software as a service offerings from Salesforce, Oracle, Google, Microsoft, SAP, and others, covering CRM, ERP, email storage, and productivity tools.

Evaluate SaaS from a user perspective by weighing fast deployment, usage-based pricing, easy upgrades, and reduced on-prem resources against trust, data location, customization limits, and potential performance and regulatory concerns.

Evaluate SaaS by weighing predictable per-user per-month revenue, direct to business decision makers, multi-tenant efficiency, and broader markets against risks like proving real value, slower revenue, and limited customization.

Software as a service shifts burden to vendors, avoids on-premise installs and upfront costs, offers a try-before-you-buy option, but regulatory concerns and risks remain as SaaS remakes the software industry.

Cloud platforms provide on-demand services like virtual machines and storage over the internet. They support software as a service, uses-based pricing, and global data centers that reduce costs.

Evaluate cloud platforms by weighing faster deployment, usage-based pricing, and lower upfront risk against security, regulatory concerns, and latency.

Explore cloud platform technologies, including IaaS, PaaS, CaaS, and FaaS, plus data services like object storage and managed databases, across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

Amazon web services as the leading cloud platform, covering ec2 compute, lambda serverless, ecs/eks containers, s3 storage, and rds with dynamodb.