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1. What are cloud service providers ?

A cloud service provider, or CSP, is a company that offers some component of


cloud computing; typically when you search the internet a cloud service is defined
as, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), software as a service (SaaS) or platform as a
service (PaaS) to other businesses or individuals.

2. What is Platform as a Service ?

The capability provided to the consumer is to deploy onto the cloud infrastructure
consumer-created or acquired applications created using programming languages,
libraries, services, and tools supported by the provider.

3. What are two benefits of cloud computing ?

Cloud users can usually get their product and apps to the market quickly. Also,
with cloud backup and data storge it is hard to lose progress and data.

4. One disadvantage od cloud computing ?

A disadvantage can be that cloud computing relies fully on internet, so if there is


an outage or failure, there is a lot of downtime.

(Technology, 2022) (National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2022)


https://csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/platform_as_a_service

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