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Asked: 2026-06-04T16:56:22+00:00

Hi this is a theoretical question, but i really am not able to figure

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Hi this is a theoretical question, but i really am not able to figure out the difference between a web application, a web based application and cloud based application. Please help me out with this.

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  1. Editorial Team

    @Matt is right – it really doesn’t matter, but, for the sake of clarity, here is my definition:

    • web application – an application working in a browser, which is not a web page, it means that it does something – e.g., allows you to share photos
    • web based application – as above, but you can think there’s an emphasis on the web, which means the application doesn’t work offline
    • cloud based application – here the emphasis is that the logic of the application (the server-side) uses some form of SaaS/PaaS/IaaS, e.g., Google App Engine, Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure or VMWare Cloud Foundry. also this term doesn’t indicate the application works in a browser – it may be native mobile (Android, iOS, WP7) application.
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