I always explain the cloud as follows:
You go to a whiteboard and draw a cloud, then inside you write "not my problem". That's the cloud. It isn't anything special, it's just a concept of this other thing that isn't your problem because you're paying Amazon to deal with it. You could have an identical server to theirs in the same data center on the same internet connection running the same software, and then you'd have to draw all of that and it wouldn't be "the cloud" anymore.
You go to a whiteboard and draw a cloud, then inside you write "not my problem". That's the cloud. It isn't anything special, it's just a concept of this other thing that isn't your problem because you're paying Amazon to deal with it. You could have an identical server to theirs in the same data center on the same internet connection running the same software, and then you'd have to draw all of that and it wouldn't be "the cloud" anymore.
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