| Web Application |
Cloud Application |
| Almost exclusively designed to be used from a Web Browser |
Not always exclusively dependent on Web Browsers to work |
| Located elsewhere and are accessible from almost anywhere |
Majority of the compute cycles happening in a data center somewhere |
| Limited by scalability |
Inherently Scalable |
| Limited by availability |
Very High Uptime |
| User Data & Business Process stored in single data center |
User Data & Business Process store in a multiple replicated data centers |
| Only run on providers web servers |
Can run on the users computing systems or the providers web servers |
| Each customer uses its own instance of the application |
The provided application is standardized for all customers |
| Isolated-tenancy solution |
Multi-tenancy solution |
