CLOUD COMPUTING AND ONLINE SERVICES

Abstract

According to increasing development of technologies such as Information Technology (IT) and using World Wide Web to improve living situation, communications and business transactions, in the past years, and a clear perspective which is available to this trend in future, there felt needs of online services and powerful servers, to have higher speed in services delivery. Therefore,
companies such as Google, Microsoft, and Apple stepped up to meet these needs, and as a result, to provide online services, they have designed a model that is called “Cloud Computing”. What this paper has tried to deals with is the impact of this model- which has been configured online on the basis of user demand to have easy access- on E-Commerce. This paper has written through analytical overview and according to researches which have been performed about this model. According to this fact that E-commerce requires speed to service delivery, elimination of intermediaries, and cost reduction, cloud computing has had a great achievement in this field. Performed studies in this aspect have demonstrated that the advantages of cloud computing have had positive and comprehensive impact on E-commerce. Cloud computing, based on designed models, has reduced costs, enhanced the speed of service delivery, and, eliminated intermediaries.