What Is the Cloud?
Explore the monumental scale and security of cloud provider data centers, and understand how cloud services are made accessible to developers through APIs. This lesson helps you grasp the physical and technological foundations of cloud computing and prepares you to leverage cloud infrastructure in your development projects.
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Introduction to cloud
The scale of capital investment in the Amazon, Microsoft, and Google cloud physical computing infrastructure is monumental. Imagine the investment needed to build 200+ physical data centers with multiple redundant power and cooling systems featuring state-of-the-art physical security. These centers are resilient in the face of a natural disaster. Even then, we are just scratching the surface.
These data centers require one ...