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Chapter 4
How to use cloud computing
Kai Liu, Qunying Huang, Jizhe Xia,
Zhenlong Li, and Peter Lostritto
Using a simple Web application as an example, this chapter demonstrates
the basic steps for deploying applications to cloud services.
4.1 POPULAR CLOUD SERVICES
4.1.1 Introduction
Cloud services provide the computing resources (storage, network, and
computation) in a virtualized fashion to consumers. The eventual success
of a cloud service is determined by the applications supported and the
improvements made to the applications in comparison to a traditional
computing service (Dastjerdi, Garg, and Buyya 2011). Improvements can
normally be ac ...