5.2 Everything as a service
Very few of us employ a personal, full-time hairdresser. Instead, when we need a haircut, we “rent” a hairdresser for a while and pay that person to cut our hair. The hairdresser is providing a hairdressing service, and we pay for the time we are using that service. The same approach can be applied to software products. Rather than buy a software product, we can rent it when we need it.
This idea of a service that is rented rather than owned is fundamental to cloud computing. Instead of owning hardware, you can rent the hardware that you need from a cloud provider. If you have a software product, you can use that rented hardware to deliver the product to your customers. In cloud computing, this has been developed ...
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