What are the similarities and dissimilarities between cloud cloud service and web service?
Hi , the Web hosting is the business of providing server space, web services and file maintenance for websites controlled by companies or individuals that do not have their own web servers and the Cloud computing is a type of computing that relies on sharing computing resources instead of having local servers or personal devices to handle applications.
No, they are not synonyms - e.g., a web service may be offered from a single host. Most cloud services have a web interface, but need not necessarily be "web services".
Web Service and Cloud services are not the same but...combining both will have large impact on business. You can access a tool or a software without Internet in web services, but in Cloud your application will be hosted in the Internet where you need a constant network connection. In other scenario, your application in web service will interact with cloud for it computational requirements.
They are related, but there is a difference.
First, "web service" is not about providing "file maintenance for web sites," and it is not about whether or not a service is provided from one host or many.
Specifically, a web service is an API typically providing data for applications to consume. In contrast, a typical "web site" or "web application" is something for end users (humans) to consume. For example, gmail is a web application, whereas the Yahoo Weather API is a web service.
A web service could be deployed on a single physical host, a load-balanced cluster of multiple physical hosts, on a single virtual host, or a load-balanced cluster of virtual hosts. However, just because it is deployed on someone's "cloud infrastructure" (eg multiple virtual hosts) does not make it a "cloud service."
The term "cloud services" is mostly a marketing term that can mean two different things. Either an application/service that provides "cloud features," for example, Dropbox; or, a service that infrastructure providers deliver, typically consisting of virtual machine hosting / app containers and software defined networking, like AWS.
In a nutshell, a web service is an API; a cloud service is an infrastructure/platform.
Lov, A "cloud-deployed web service" is a web service, but the term "cloud service" alone depends on context.
Cloud services offers remote resources as a service to users. Cloud services are based on Web services. Examples of Cloud services are IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.
Web services provides functionality and act as an application component over the web which can work without cloud environment. Two wel known web services are SOAP web services and RESTful web services which are defined based on architectural style.
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If asking about relationships between Web Services and Cloud Computing. visit the following URL:
http://www.service-architecture.com/articles/cloud-computing/web_services_and_cloud_computing.html
What I understood is cloud service can be SaaS, PaaS, IaaS. Now an web service can surely be offered as a SaaS , max as a PaaS ( Very resource heavy it would be ) , but not as an IaaS. Now the other way round can something apart from web services be a SaaS ? I guess so. Excellent question!
Dear Goswamy..
Even to access the IaaS, we need the web services. And I feel the same ie. " Cloud Services are based on the Web Services".
If you want to read the fundamentals of cloud, You can buy my book "Introduction to cloud computing" book from the below link. Please share with your friends and students.
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Thanks and Regards
Praveen
Lov Kumar can you provide the name of the book you mention in your answer above ?
Web services are the tools that allow users to interact with software over the Internet. Cloud services are the servers that store the data, security and other infrastructure pieces needed to allow Web services to provide unique value as Web-accessible applications.
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