Cloud services are distinct in its makeup and are certainly different from the more tradition al hosting process. With the cloud service there is the leeway to sell on demand, which is usually by the minute or hour, it is also elastic which means a user can dictate the amount of service needed at any given time and the service is fully managed by the provider.

This would effectively mean the customer would need nothing else but a personal computer and access to the internet. Some of the reasons cloud has become so popular is because this element is able to provide significant innovations in virtualization and distributed computing, while improving access to high speed internet.