Abstract
Cloud computing affects on different sectors, including: E-learning, health care, and E-commerce. It offers online services in high efficiency and minimal cost which provide a high economic value. It is undoubtedly the next revolution in the Internet world as well as the business world.
 
 Currently, more E-commerce enterprises move to Cloud Computing to achieve high practical value. This paper introduces an overview for Cloud computing in E-commerce through discussing various definitions for both concepts, highlighting the benefits and challenges for applying Cloud Computing in E-commerce, and discussing a suggested cloud computing E-commerce framework.
Highlights
IntroductionThere is no doubt that we are living in an era where things are getting old while they are still in the top of their modernity, the pace of technological development is accelerating, and hardly a day goes by without a witness appeared on the essential changes in all sectors, including the business sector
There is no doubt that we are living in an era where things are getting old while they are still in the top of their modernity, the pace of technological development is accelerating, and hardly a day goes by without a witness appeared on the essential changes in all sectors, including the business sector.In the past, to sell products you have to rent physically an office space which added different expenses, Ecommerce appeared and gave the flexibility for enterprises to sell products online without any need to rent a shop like before
To sell products you have to rent physically an office space which added different expenses, Ecommerce appeared and gave the flexibility for enterprises to sell products online without any need to rent a shop like before. These days, many more E-commerce enterprises especially SMEs (Small and Medium sized Enterprises) take advantage of the benefits of cloud computing (Mann et al, 2008), where the growing of this innovation led them to compete with the large enterprises in providing products and services as they have a large infrastructure despite their limited infrastructure (Abdulkader and Abualkishik, 2013)
Summary
There is no doubt that we are living in an era where things are getting old while they are still in the top of their modernity, the pace of technological development is accelerating, and hardly a day goes by without a witness appeared on the essential changes in all sectors, including the business sector. To sell products you have to rent physically an office space which added different expenses, Ecommerce appeared and gave the flexibility for enterprises to sell products online without any need to rent a shop like before. These days, many more E-commerce enterprises especially SMEs (Small and Medium sized Enterprises) take advantage of the benefits of cloud computing (Mann et al, 2008), where the growing of this innovation led them to compete with the large enterprises in providing products and services as they have a large infrastructure despite their limited infrastructure (Abdulkader and Abualkishik, 2013). The benefits of investment in cloud computing technology in businesses have been widely recognized (Armbrust et al, 2010) such as flexibility, reliability, enhancing the availability, and reducing the cost of E-businesses. (Tuncay, 2010)
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