What is "the Cloud" – and Where is It?
The cloud is hardly floating like mist above our heads; it's a physical infrastructure, its many computers housed in massive warehouses all over the world. But the cloud isn't magic. It's a business.
The cloud is hardly floating like mist above our heads; it's a physical infrastructure, its many computers housed in massive warehouses all over the world. But the cloud isn't magic. It's a business.
For the past several years, Amazon has been quietly building one of the fastest cloud networks in the history of computers. Except it doesn't exist in any room—it's spread across the entire world. Virtual computers are now supercomputers.
