1. 云计算：
顾名思义，云计算基本上是一种面向服务的架构，涉及通过互联网提供托管服务。它可以更快、更准确地检索应用程序和数据。与传统的计算解决方案相比，它最有效率和更好地促进强大的工作流程，并且更具成本效益。
2. 绿色计算：
顾名思义，绿色计算基本上是研究设计、制造、使用和处置计算设备的方式，以减少其对环境的危险影响。它主要用于在洗衣机、烘干机、笔记本电脑和冰箱等不同应用中提高能源效率。
云计算与绿色计算的区别：
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Cloud Computing |
Green Computing |
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| It is all about delivery of computing services including servers, storage, databases, networking, etc., over internet. | It is all about utilizing energy to perform operations in most efficient way possible. |
| It offers utility-oriented IT services to users worldwide. | It helps in using least amount of computing resources for doing most amount of work. |
| Its main goal is to provide magnitude improvement in cost effective, dynamic provisioning of IT services. | Its main goal is to attain economic viability and improve way of how computing devices are used. |
| It reduces energy consumption, waste, and carbon emissions, reduce carbon foot print, etc. | It reduces use of hazardous materials, increase energy efficiency during product’s lifetime, manage power and energy efficiency, create sustainable business processes, etc. |
| It increases revenue of business organizations and help them to achieve business goals, provide faster communication, secure network collaboration, promote efficient utilization of existing resources, etc. | It reduces carbon footprint of business and provide a reputation boost, help business responsibly use energy and keep business running on energy-lean diet. |
| It is internet service that provides computing needs to computer users. | It is that a computer and technology is how much responsible for environmental change. |
| It allows company to diversity its network and server infrastructure. | It allows companies to improve disposal and recycling procedures. |
| It lowers IT costs, maintain business continuity, provide scalability, allows automatic software integrations, etc. | It lowers energy bills, lower overall power usage, cost-effective due to less energy usage and cooling requirements, etc. |
| It is less cost effective as compared to green computing. | It is more cost effective as compared to cloud computing. |