Cloud services refer to any IT services that are provisioned and accessed from a cloud computing provider. This is a broad term that incorporates all delivery and service models of cloud computing and related solutions. Cloud services are delivered over the internet and accessible globally from the internet. There are three types of cloud computing service models: infrastructure as a service offers compute and storage services, platform as a service offers a develop-and-deploy environment to build cloud apps, and software as a service delivers apps as services.
Cloud services are a broad term that incorporates all delivery and service models of cloud computing and related solutions. Examples of popular SaaS services include Dropbox, Salesforce, and Cisco WebEx. Google App Engine, Apache Stratos, and OpenShift are examples of PaaS services. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cisco Metapod, and Microsoft Azure are examples of well-known IaaS services. Cloud services refer to any IT services that are provisioned and accessed from a cloud computing provider.