Cloud computing provides on-demand access to computing resources like servers, storage, databases, and software over the internet.
Key Features:
- Scalability – Easily increase or decrease resources based on demand.
- Cost-Efficiency – Pay-as-you-go pricing eliminates the need for heavy hardware investment.
- Security – Cloud providers offer data encryption, authentication, and compliance with industry standards.
- High Availability – Ensures minimal downtime with distributed cloud servers.
- Flexibility – Access resources from anywhere in the world.
- Public Cloud – Services offered by third-party providers (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure).
- Private Cloud – Dedicated infrastructure for a single organization.
- Hybrid Cloud – A mix of public and private cloud for better flexibility.
- Community Cloud – Shared infrastructure for organizations with similar requirements.
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Popular Cloud Computing Platforms:
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) – Leading cloud provider with services like EC2, S3, Lambda.
- Microsoft Azure – Enterprise cloud platform integrated with Microsoft services.
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP) – Known for AI/ML services and Kubernetes.
- Sign in to AWS Management Console.
- Navigate to EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud).
- Click Launch Instance and select an OS (Linux, Windows).
- Configure CPU, RAM, and storage.
- Click Launch and connect via SSH.