cloud services

Internet-hosted infrastructure

Cloud services are computing resources—storage, processing power, software, databases—accessed over the internet rather than from local hardware.

Companies rent these capabilities from providers like Amazon, Google, or Microsoft instead of maintaining their own servers: We migrated our entire infrastructure to cloud services.

The model allows scaling up or down based on demand.

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infrastructure location

cloud serviceson-prem

Locally hosted computing resources

edge computing · desktop computing · on-premises · bare metal · colocation

deployment model

cloud servicesdedicated servers

Computing resources for one user

legacy systems · standalone systems

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