Cloud Computing Based E-Commerce as a Service Model: Impacts and Recommendations

Abstract

In the past few years, the great transmission of theoretical concept of different industries such as E-commerce into real application has been used by cloud computing. Based on cloud features and characteristics those are encouraging small companies that providing their E-commerce products to adopt their development into cloud computing. In order to assist the E-commerce small companies with the right way to start with the basic requirements and upgrading their computing resources as their cloud user base grows with time, herewith the E-commerce as the services model for cloud computing is proposed. The main goal of the proposed model is to integrate the E-commerce as a service enterprise and cloud computing. Cloud computing provide a number of internal services such as software as a service (SaaS), hardware as a service (HaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), data as a service (DaaS) and communication as a service (CaaS) beside an external services such as the internet service provider, IT service provider, software developer, system integration provider and hardware suppliers. The paper concluded that integrations of the internal and external services could sustain E-commerce development in cloud environment.