With so many cloud-based services introduced to the market these days, it’s often difficult for us to find out what one cloud service provider offers differently from the others.

In our effort to find the better classification of cloud services, we have observed a couple of graphics on cloud classification and found that one particular cloud infographic stands out.

Horn Group, Inc., a tech communication agency, has released this very helpful cloud computing infographic that classifies cloud-based services into 4 major “layers” – Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS,) Platform as a Service (PaaS,) Software as a Service (SaaS,) and Communications & Social Applications:

Via ReadWriteCloud