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Discussion on: Explain "The Cloud" like I'm 5

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Rodrigo Nascimento

when the sun heats the surface of the earth, the water gets hot and make some fog, ad this fog goes to the heaven and creates the clouds hehehehe #joking

the cloud is merely the same tech as we had since the begining! what I mean is that you still have a tons of bare metal servers and sysadmins jumping around on servers, support people solving problems, and some random dude doing some cables to make this goes to there.
the main difference is the business model, and the automation of big part of the work. you don't need a sysadmin to create more servers to you. you could do this by yourself or your system could scale horizontally and/ or vertically when your application needs it. in short terms "the cloud" is just a fancy name to self-service/ automatic jobs.