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What is the Cloud in Cloud Computing?

In very simple words  cloud computing is an alternative to installing and maintaining your own physical computing infrastructure resources. There are different service models and different deployment models, each one meeting a different set of requirements and constraints.  “the cloud” is not amorphous but a real and physical, but ever-changing, collection of servers and storage units, located in data centers and tied together through fiber optic networks routing through peering points that are accessible through your Internet Service Provider at your home or office, or accessible through your cellular network provider and your smart phone. One of the key characteristics of the Cloud is the appearance of infinite compute and storage resources . When you access a cloud provider, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) / Microsoft Azure / Google Cloud, you can spin up any number of virtual machines (VMs) and tie that to as many terabytes of storage that you wish. From the Cloud