Cloud computing architecture: Difference between revisions

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{{See also|Category:Cloud clients}}

Cloud computing architectures consist of front-end platforms called clients or cloud clients. These clients are servers, fat (or thick) clients, thin clients, zero clients, [[tablet computer|tablets]] and mobile devices that users directly interact with. These client platforms interact with the cloud data storage via an application (middleware), via a web browser, or through a virtual session.

===The zero client===

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===Development as a service (DaaS)===

Development as a service is web based, community shared developmenttool toolsset. This is the equivalent to locally installed development tools in the traditional (non-cloud computing) delivery of development tools.<ref name="enterpriseirregulars" />

===Data as a service (DaaS)===

[[Data as a service]] is web based design construct where by cloudcould data is accessed through somea defined API layer. DaaS services are often considered as a specialized subset of a Software as a Service (SaaS) offering.

===Platform as a service (PaaS)===