Introducing students to basic concepts of cloud computing and understanding of types of services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, FaaS, BPaaS...) usually available on cloud platfroms. Introducing students to basics of popular cloud platforms (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Azure...). Introducing students to future trends of multicloud computing and fog computing.

Upon successful completion of the course students are able to apply the concepts of cloud computing in software systems design and implementation, and to develop cloud based applications.

The notion of cloud computing. Types of services: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and virtualization Platform as a Service (PaaS) Software as a Service (SaaS) Function as a Service (FaaS) Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) Popular cloud paltfroms. Patterns in cloud computing. Trends: multicloud computing, fog computing

Lectures; Computer practice. Consultations. Practiacl project. The examination is oral. The final grade is formed on the bases of success at project and oral examination.