CLOUD COMPUTING IN E-COMMERCE

Abstract

Cloud computing impacts numerous industries, including: e-learning, e-commerce, and healthcare. It offers high- efficiency and low-cost online services which provide a high economic value. This is definitely also the next revolution in the internet and business world. More e-commerce enterprises are currently moving to cloud computing to attain high practical value. It provides an overview of cloud computing in e-commerce by addressing variousmeanings forboth terms, highlighting the advantages and drawbacks of implementing cloudcomputing in e-commerce, andaddressing a proposed E-commerce system for cloud computing. Cloud computing is a computing model, where a broad pool of systems is connected in private or public networks to providedynamically scalable application, data, and file storage infrastructure. With the advent of this technology, the costs of processing, hosting software, storing information, and distribution are greatly reduced. Cloud computing is a general term for something that includes the delivery of serviceshosted over the Internet. Ecommerce, also known as e- commerce or internet trade, refers to the purchase and sale ofgoods or services using the internet, and the transfer of moneyand data to execute such transactions. Ecommerce is often used to refer to the online sale of physical products, but it canalso describe any type of commercial transaction facilitated via the internet.