Cloud computing is the delivery of computing services over the Internet.
These computing services include traditional IT infrastructure elements such as:

• Virtual machines
• Storage
• Databases
• Networks

Cloud services also extend traditional IT offerings to include technologies such as:

• Internet of Things (IoT)
• Machine Learning (ML)
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Because cloud computing uses the Internet to deliver these services, it is not limited by physical infrastructure like a traditional data center.
This means that if you need to quickly scale up your IT infrastructure, you don’t have to build a new data center—you can simply use the cloud to rapidly expand your capacity.

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