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Cloud Computing Infrastructure

Cloud computing infrastructure encompasses the hardware and software components necessary for cloud services, including servers, storage, networking, and management software. It is divided into front-end and back-end architecture, with the front end serving clients and the back end managing resources. Key services offered include Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), each providing different levels of access and functionality.

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Cloud Computing Infrastructure

Cloud computing infrastructure encompasses the hardware and software components necessary for cloud services, including servers, storage, networking, and management software. It is divided into front-end and back-end architecture, with the front end serving clients and the back end managing resources. Key services offered include Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), each providing different levels of access and functionality.

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Cloud Computing Infrastructure

Cloud Infrastructure which comes under the backend part of cloud architecture
represents the hardware and software component such as server, storage, networking,
management software, deployment software and virtualization software etc. In backend,
cloud infrastructure enables the complete cloud computing system.

Cloud infrastructure has more capabilities of providing the same services as the physical
infrastructure to the customers. The most important point is that cloud infrastructure
should have some basic infrastructural constraints like transparency, scalability, security
and intelligent monitoring etc.
Components of cloud infrastructure
1. Hypervisor :

Hypervisor is a firmware or a low level program which is a key to enable virtualization. It is


used to divide and allocate cloud resources between several customers. As it monitors and
manages cloud services/resources that’s why hypervisor is called as VMM (Virtual Machine
Monitor) or (Virtual Machine Manager).

2. Management Software :

Management software helps in maintaining and configuring the infrastructure. Cloud


management software monitors and optimizes resources, data, applications and services.

3. Deployment Software :

Deployment software helps in deploying and integrating the application on the cloud. So,
typically it helps in building a virtual computing environment.
4. Network :

It is one of the key component of cloud infrastructure which is responsible for connecting
cloud services over the internet. For the transmission of data and resources externally and
internally network is must required.

5. Server :

Server which represents the computing portion of the cloud infrastructure is responsible
for managing and delivering cloud services for various services and partners, maintaining
security etc.

6. Storage :

Storage represents the storage facility which is provided to different organizations for
storing and managing data. It provides a facility of extracting another resource if one of
the resource fails as it keeps many copies of storage.
Architecture of cloud computing
As we know, cloud computing technology is used by both small and large organizations
to store the information in cloud and access it from anywhere at anytime using the internet
connection.
Cloud computing architecture is a combination of service-oriented
architecture and event-driven architecture.

Cloud computing architecture is divided into the following two parts -

Front End

The front end is used by the client. It contains client-side interfaces and applications that
are required to access the cloud computing platforms. The front end includes web
servers (including Chrome, Firefox, internet explorer, etc.), thin & fat clients, tablets,
and mobile devices.

Back End

The back end is used by the service provider. It manages all the resources that are
required to provide cloud computing services. It includes a huge amount of data storage,
security mechanism, virtual machines, deploying models, servers, traffic control
mechanisms, etc.
Components of Cloud Computing Architecture

There are the following components of cloud computing architecture –

1. Client Infrastructure

Client Infrastructure is a Front end component. It provides GUI (Graphical User


Interface) to interact with the cloud.

2. Application

The application may be any software or platform that a client wants to access.

3. Service

A Cloud Services manages that which type of service you access according to the
client’s requirement.
Cloud computing offers the following three type of services:

i. Software as a Service (SaaS) – It is also known as cloud application services. Mostly,


SaaS applications run directly through the web browser means we do not require to
download and install these applications. Some important example of SaaS is given below
–
Example: Google Apps, Salesforce Dropbox, Slack, Cisco WebEx.

ii. Platform as a Service (PaaS) – It is also known as cloud platform services. It is quite
similar to SaaS, but the difference is that PaaS provides a platform for software creation,
but using SaaS, we can access software over the internet without the need of any platform.
Example: Windows Azure, Force.com, Magento Commerce Cloud,

iii. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) – It is also known as cloud infrastructure


services. It is responsible for managing applications data, middleware, and runtime
environments.
Example: Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2, Google Compute Engine (GCE),
4. Runtime Cloud
Runtime Cloud provides the execution and runtime environment to the virtual machines.

5. Storage
Storage is one of the most important components of cloud computing. It provides a huge
amount of storage capacity in the cloud to store and manage data.

6. Infrastructure
It provides services on the host level, application level, and network level. Cloud
infrastructure includes hardware and software components such as servers, storage, network
devices, virtualization software, and other storage resources that are needed to support the
cloud computing model.

7. Management
Management is used to manage components such as application, service, runtime cloud,
storage, infrastructure, and other security issues in the backend and establish coordination
between them
8. Security

Security is an in-built back end component of cloud computing. It implements a security


mechanism in the back end.

9. Internet

The Internet is medium through which front end and back end can interact and
communicate with each other.

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