
2. Examples of cloud services
2.1 Amazon's offer remains the benchmark
Amazon remains the benchmark for cloud computing offerings, with a wide range of Amazon Web Services (AWS), some of which are free:
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a cloud-based data storage offering; Dropbox and Ubuntu One are among the services that rely on an S3 infrastructure;
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a set of PaaS offerings, with a wide choice of operating systems and installed software;
Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR) is a SaaS offering for the analysis of large volumes of data;
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) is an oxymoron, since it offers...
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