Quick Answer
What is Cloud Computing?
Cloud Computing is the on-demand delivery of compute, storage and services over the internet.
Cloud
Cloud Computing
By Glintr Editorial TeamReviewed by Glintr Learn ReviewersUpdated 5 min readArea: Cloud
Definition
Cloud Computing lets teams rent compute, storage, databases and higher-level services from providers like AWS, Google Cloud and Azure — paying for what they use instead of running their own data centres.
Real-world examples
- Hosting a website on AWS or Vercel.
- Storing files in Google Cloud Storage.
- Running a machine learning workload on GPUs in the cloud.
Related Concepts