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What is Cloud Computing?
/ˌklaʊd kəmˈpjuːtɪŋ/
Cloud computing means accessing computing resources — servers, storage, software, databases — over the internet on demand, rather than owning and running them yourself.
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Everyday Example
When you save a document to Google Drive instead of your hard drive, or stream music on Spotify instead of storing files locally, you are using cloud computing.
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“Netflix runs entirely on Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure — they have no physical data centres of their own, giving them flexibility to scale globally.”
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Did you know?
The term "cloud" dates to 1990s network diagrams where the internet was drawn as a cloud shape. Amazon launched AWS in 2006, kickstarting the modern cloud era.
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Key Insight
Cloud computing shifted software from a product you buy to a service you rent, fundamentally changing the economics of building and scaling technology businesses.
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