What are Cloud Service Providers (CSP)? Who are the major Cloud Service Providers in the industry?
Cloud service providers (CSP) are companies that offer cloud computing services to their customers. Moreover, cloud service provider (CSP) is a third party company offering a cloud based infrastructure, platform, application, or storage services to customers. It is an entity making cloud services available for use by the general public or specific customers. Besides to cloud service providers, there are other cloud roles including loud brokers, cloud auditor, cloud carriers and cloud consumers. Furthermore, cloud service providers offer companies a wide range of benefits such as on-demand self-service, and pay-per-use, which enables companies to pay only for the amount of cloud services they use based on their business requirements. CSP offers components of cloud computing typically, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), software as a service (SaaS) or platform as a service (PaaS).