The Spring Framework is an application framework and inversion of control container for the Java platform. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Framework Spring Boot is an open source Java-based framework used to create a micro Service. It is developed by Pivotal Team and is used to build stand-alone and production ready spring applications. https://www.tutorialspoint.com/spring_boot/spring_boot_introduction.htm Spring Cloud is a framework for building robust cloud applications. https://www.baeldung.com/spring-cloud-bootstrapping