DATABASE FUNDAMENTALS
CLOUD COMPUTING AND DATABASES
Question
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Software as a service (SaaS)
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Platform as a service (PaaS)
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Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Question 33: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is primarily considered which type of cloud computing model? Explanation: AWS is a public cloud platform that provides a mix of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, but its EC2 offering is predominately categorized as IaaS.
Detailed explanation-2: -A good example of IaaS is AWS EC2. EC2 delivers scalable infrastructure for companies that want to host cloud-based applications. EC2 users do not own the physical servers-AWS provides virtual servers.
Detailed explanation-3: -Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provides scalable computing capacity in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. Using Amazon EC2 eliminates your need to invest in hardware up front, so you can develop and deploy applications faster.
Detailed explanation-4: -Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) offers the broadest and deepest compute platform, with over 500 instances and choice of the latest processor, storage, networking, operating system, and purchase model to help you best match the needs of your workload.
Detailed explanation-5: -Data Platform as a Service (PaaS)-cloud-based offerings like Amazon S3 and Redshift or EMR provide a complete data stack, except for ETL and BI. Data Software as a Service (SaaS)-an end-to-end data stack in one tool.