Cloud Services

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Context

• Over the last five years, the number of registered startups in India have grown from 452 in 2016 to 84,012 according to figures presented in Parliament. Several are based in the cloud – the servers and data storage accessible via the internet.

Cloud Services

• Cloud services are infrastructure, platforms, or software that are hosted by third-party providers and made available to users through the internet.
• Cloud services facilitate the flow of user data from front-end clients (e.g., users’ servers, tablets, desktops, laptops—anything on the users’ ends), through the internet, to the provider’s systems, and back.
• Cloud services promote the building of cloud-native applications and the flexibility of working in the cloud. Users can access cloud services with nothing more than a computer, operating system, and internet connectivity.

Examples Of Cloud Services

How do cloud services work?

• Like all other IT solutions, cloud services rely on hardware and software.

Cloud infrastructure

When supplying users with a cloud infrastructure, cloud services providers detach computing capabilities from hardware components, such as separating:

• Processing power from central processing units (CPUs).
• Active memory from random access memory (RAM) chips.
• Graphics processing from the graphics processing units (GPUs).
• Data storage availability from datacenters or hard drives.
• This abstraction is typically accomplished through virtualization and virtual machines. Once separated, the storage, compute, and networking components are provided to users through the internet as infrastructure—or IaaS. This kind of cloud service has led to the rise of cloud storage, which stores big data as part of the Internet of Things (IOT). RackSpace is an example of an IaaS provider.

India’s Cloud Computing Market

• Furthermore, growing investment towards the construction of cloud data centres is expected to boost the India cloud computing market.
• The high concentration and increasing number of small and medium-sized businesses in India that are rapidly shifting towards cloud computing is emerging as the major driving factor for the market. 

https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/aws-gives-cloud-services-to-help-propel-indias-startup-boom/article66320661.ece#:~:text=India's%20cloud%20computing%20market%20was,driving%20factor%20for%20the%20market.