Chapter 9

Cloud Platforms in Industry

Cloud computing allows end users and developers to leverage large distributed computing infrastructures. This is made possible thanks to infrastructure management software and distributed computing platforms offering on-demand compute, storage, and, on top of these, more advanced services. There are several different options for building enterprise cloud computing applications or for using cloud computing technologies to integrate and extend existing industrial applications. An overview of a few prominent cloud computing platforms and a brief description of the types of service they offer are shown in Table 9.1. A cloud computing system can be developed using either a single technology and vendor or a combination ...

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