1 What are Cloud Services?

Cloud services provide resources that are accessible over the Internet. These available resources are not strictly limited, and are increasing in number and functionality almost daily. One of the main benefits of Cloud services is removing the burden of maintaining compute and storage servers by individuals and organizations. The servers that implement Cloud services are maintained by service providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS). Internet of Things (IoT) is a subset of Cloud services that are tailored to devices such as actuators and sensors. An optimization of IoT services is a concept called Cloud Edge Computing. Edge computing brings web services to servers and devices located near the clients that are using those services. Although not owned by the Cloud service providers, the Edge Devices are under the control of the Cloud service providers.