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What is a cloud?
The term cloud is often user with really understanding its meaning. Its a term used across a number of different disciplines to describe a group of things that appear as one, from a distance, such as:
- Meteorology: A waether cloud is a mass of water droplets
- Mathematics: A larger number of points on a graph is a point cloud
- Astronomy: Star Clouds
In computing a cloud refers to a collections of computing technologies that work together to provide a service. While this definitions can be applied to a large number of systems, cloud computing is defined by serveral traits:
- Rapid elasticity - capabilities are easily scaled
- Measured Service - monitoring by consumption
- On demand self service - Provision as much as you need
- Broad Network - Access any where on any device
- Resource Pooling: Infrastructure is shared