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re Cloud Services Models * Aset of IT-related services offered by a cloud provider * Cloud providers are responsible for providing cloud based resources to consumers - Responsible for underlying services and infrastructure * The choice of cloud services model is critical to the success of cloud based deployments Cloud Services Models Infrastructure as a Service (laaS) * Cloud consumer outsources responsibility for the infrastructure to the cloud provider * Cloud provider handles ~ Storage resources ~ Compute resources - Connectivity domains * Provides numerous advantages ~ Pay as you go - Control over applications and operating systems ~ Quickly scalable Cloud Services Models Platform as a Service (PaaS) * Enables customers to deploy ~ | applications without requiring the ss expense of the underlying infrastructure * Customers purchase or create PaaS applications that are available over the Platform Internet along with programming tools asa Service and languages required by the Application Development applications Decision Support * Allows for a specific focus on application we development which has its advantages Streaming, Cloud Services Models Software as a Service (SaaS) * Consumers take advantage of software delivery model using the Internet and web browsers * Efficient way to deploy line of business applications + Office productivity software ~ Team collaboration and communication ~ Project management - Customer Relationship Management a es Cloud Services Models * All additional cloud services models relate back to these three primary options - laaS - PaaS - SaaS * It is critical to understand who it is that functions as a consumer given the particular model eee eS a a ces Cloud Services Models Database as a Service (DBaaS) * A form of software specializing in the automatic delivery of database operations * Several competencies are supported = Self-service provisioning of database instances - Monitoring of database attributes and QoS levels + Measured utilization of database services * The DBaaS infrastructure supports additional capabilities ~ Secure multitenancy = Service elasticity ~ And more... Cloud Services Models Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) * Combination of business process step execution monitoring with one of the primary cloud models * Business process monitoring optimizes the delivery of business services * Cloud providers are used instead of traditional Business Process Anything as a Service (XaaS) * Delivery of the IT as a service through hybrid cloud computing * Uses a combination of other service models * Simply a term to describe the distribution of different IT components in the cloud Management Systems (BPMS) eee a em Cloud Services Models * In addition to understanding the consumers we need to understand where the accountability and reliability lie depending on service models * Accountability is important to cloud services as a whole - SaaS - cloud provider assumes responsibility - laaS and PaaS — responsibility is distributed between the consumer and the provider

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