Cloud platforms

Cloud computing involves delivering computing services such as storage, compute, networking, and intelligence over the internet. It offers a pay-as-you-go model, which means you only pay for the service you use. This helps cut down on your operating costs, as well as capital expenditure (CapEx) costs. Cloud enables optimal resource utilization, instant scalability, agility, and ease of maintenance, enabling faster innovation and economies of scale. For example, Canva is a design tool that anyone can access via its simple user interface. In 2019, it had 55 million users. At the time of writing, it has 85 million users worldwide, creating 100+ designs per second. To accommodate this exponential customer and data volume growth seamlessly with similar or better performance, Canva uses the AWS platform.

The following cloud computing distributions are the market leaders in cloud computing and are often referred to as the Big 3 of cloud computing:

• AWS by Amazon
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