Cloud Computing Information[Title]

1. What are cloud service providers?

 A cloud service provider is an outside company that your business can use services from
over a network(Google, 2023).

2. What is a platform as a service?

 Platform as a service is a tool used to give companies remote access to software and web
apps over the internet that the cloud service provider hosts (Bigelow, et. al, 2022)

3. What are two benefits of cloud computing?

 The computer that the employee uses does not have to be powerful, the one that they are
connecting to does
 Another benefit is that all your information is stored on the cloud so you don’t have to worry
about your information being lost or stolen

4. What is a disadvantage of is using cloud computing?

 If the internet is down you wont be able to access the data on the cloud
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