Q: What are the different layers of cloud architecture?

IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) provides virtualized computing resources like servers and storage, while PaaS (Platform as a Service) offers a complete development environment, including tools and frameworks, for building and deploying applications.

There are four types of clouds in cloud computing:

• Private clouds
• Public clouds
• Hybrid clouds
• Mutli clouds

Some of the key features that one must keep in mind before going for cloud computing platform are as follows:

• Store your data with utmost security
• Be up to date with recent technology, compatibility and governing policies.

Cloud computing is the combination of hardware, software and other cloud-based components which come together and form a cloud environment accordingly to the business’ need. It consists of three major components:

• Front End platform
• Back End platform
• Cloud based delivery model.

IDaaS or Identity as a Service hold a range of services but some of the mainstream services as follows:

• Single Sign-On (SSO)
• Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
• Directory services