infoühiskonna teenus, mis võimaldab juurdepääsu andmetöötlusressursside kogumile, mis on paindlikult jagatav ning laiendatav süsteemi ennast muutmata, a digital service that enables access to a scalable and elastic pool of shareable computing resources, service made available to users on demand via the Internet from a cloud computing provider's servers as opposed to being provided from a company's own on-premises servers