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Cloud computing

Cloud Computing is the delivery of computing services—servers, storage, databases, networking, software,
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running Windows or Linux. You can then install whatever software you need to do the tasks you want to run in the
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The difference is that you don't have to buy any of the hardware or install the OS. The cloud provider runs your
virtual machine on a physical server in one of their datacenters - often sharing that server with other VMs (isolated
and secure). With the cloud, you can have a VM ready to go in minutes at less cost than a physical computer.

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