On Premises vs Cloud¶
Youtube¶
Normal computer vs Server¶
Datacenter¶
A data center is a collection of servers to provide shared access to applications and data using a complex network, compute, and storage infrastructure
On premises vs Cloud¶
On premises means the Datacenter owned only by the Company/Organization
Cloud means the Datacenter is owned by the provider and given as service to the customer and the servers will be shared by multiple customers
Datacenter locations of cloud providers¶
Major Cloud Providers¶
- AWS (Amazon Web Services)
- Microsoft Azure
- GCP (Google Cloud Platform)
And many more....
Cloud service offerings¶
- Iaas → Infrastructure as a Service Eg: Getting servers from cloud providers ...
- Pass → Platform as a Service Eg: EKS(Elastic Kubernetes Service) from AWS, Openshift from Redhat ...
- Saas → Software as a Service Eg: Gmail, Youtube ...
Virtual Machines¶
From a single server, we can create multiple small servers called Virtual Machines(VM) using a technology Hypervisor
