What is cloud computing?
What exactly is cloud computing? It is a term often thrown around by many people who don’t understand it and wonder what it means. Having your infrastructure in the cloud does not mean you have your servers up in the sky. Let’s try to define it plainly.
Essentially, cloud computing is outsourcing a company’s hardware and software infrastructure to a third party. At a high level, it is the on-demand availability of IT resources such as servers, storage, databases, and so on over the web, without the hassle of managing physical infrastructure. Instead of having their own data center, enterprises borrow someone else’s data center. Cloud computing has many advantages:
- Economies of scale are associated with buying in bulk.
- You only pay for the time you use the equipment in increments of minutes or seconds.
- Arguably one of the most important benefits is the ability to scale up, out, down, and in.
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