Cloud, regions, and zones
In this section, we will learn about some jargon related to the cloud. We will also learn about regions and zones, and how they have been realized by various cloud providers. These concepts are important to understand to decide how you want to distribute your data and what sort of guarantees you want to provide:
- Cloud: A cloud is nothing but a bunch of servers on multiple data centers that are positioned in strategic locations across the globe. These data centers provide resources such as storage, network, and compute on demand, and they belong to a specific cloud provider.
- Cloud provider: A cloud provider is an organization that provides various services on its public or private cloud platform.
- Public cloud: In a public cloud, resources that you consume are hosted on the cloud provider's data center. The cloud provider is responsible for maintaining, upgrading, and operating cloud resources. Since you are consuming resources maintained...
