( onshape.com ); Fusion 360, a product development system
that includes CAD, computer-aided manufacturing, and
computer-aided engineering, from Autodesk ( autodesk.
com ); the Plex Manufacturing Cloud from Plex Systems
( plex.com ), which hosts enterprise resource planning
software; and, of course, anything that supports the Internet
of Things (IoT). Even cloud service providers offer SaaS
applications. For instance, by applying its advanced analytic
and machine learning tools to business operations, IBM
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
prices cloud computing services
based on "three fundamental
characteristics: computing,
storage, and data transfer out."
That said, the devil is in the
details. Pricing for computing
involves, among other items, the
clock hours of server time,
machine configuration, number of
instances, operating system and
software packages. The details
regarding data storage involve
the amount and type of storage,
and durability and availability
("storage class"). Insofar as data
transfers, not only is the amount a
factor, but also the number and
type of data requests.
AWS has two on-line calculators
to help estimate the cost of cloud
computing services. The Total
Cost of Ownership Calculator
( awstcocalculator.com ) compares
running applications in an on-
premises or colocation environ-
ment to AWS. In addition to some
basic details, the calculator
requires details about the user's
computer servers, storage
requirements, network bandwidth
and IT staffing. The other calcula-
tor, Simple Monthly Calcu-
lator ( calculator.s3.amazonaws.
com/index.html ) helps users
estimate their monthly bill for 26
different AWS cloud services.
Pricing Cloud
Computing
provides cloud-based predictive and prescriptive mainte-
nance to determine the health of assets and identify their
"reliability risk that could adversely affect plant or business
operations"; asset management for optimizing asset perfor-
mance; and telematics analytics, which "augments driver
behavior data with GPS data to offer Smarter Usage Based
Insurance (UBI), enabling insurers to offer differentiated
GPS-based, value-added services."
Cloud computing is hosted in three ways:
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