{"id":12854,"date":"2012-10-12T13:03:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T13:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/cloud-services\/"},"modified":"2017-05-02T17:04:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T17:04:51","slug":"cloud-services","status":"publish","type":"definition","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/29017\/cloud-services","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"what_does_cloud_services_mean\">What Does Cloud Services Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>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.\n<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"techopedia_explains_cloud_services\">Techopedia Explains Cloud Services<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Cloud services provide many IT services traditionally hosted in-house, including provisioning an application\/database server from the cloud, replacing in-house storage\/backup with cloud storage and accessing software and applications directly from a web browser without prior installation.\n<\/p>\n<p>There are three basic types of cloud services:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Software as a service (SaaS)<\/li>\n<li>Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) <\/li>\n<li>Platform as a service (PaaS)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cloud services provide great flexibility in provisioning, duplicating and scaling resources to balance the requirements of users, hosted applications and solutions. 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