Cloud Services and Service Providers

Abstract

Cloud computing provisions resources to consumers in the form of different services like software, infrastructure, platform, and more. Many companies have come forward to offer cloud services. This chapter provides an overview of cloud services offered by various major providers such as Amazon, Microsoft, Google, EMC, Salesforce.com and IBM. They provide various tools and services in order to give cloud support for their customers. Each section briefly describes cloud services offered by a provider and their features, and identifies tools and technologies adopted by the company in order to provide services to the users. This chapter helps readers to distinguish among different services provided by various companies and make appropriate choices to suit their requirements. © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.