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How Does the Cloud Work?

How Does the Cloud Work?

Learn about the working of the cloud, how to create its resources, and its platform design.

High-level overview

On a high level, cloud platforms provide a way to interact with their platforms, often via a dashboard and APIs. We can use either option to create the necessary resources, deploy our code, and make our services available so that consumers can access them over the Internet.

Let’s imagine we have built a website that shows a list of nearest AEDs based on visitors’ locations. For this website, we need compute resources such as a virtual machine, a data store to save the current and new locations, and connectivity to the virtual machine (VM) to be accessible over the Internet.

With the website ready, how can we take it to end users with the help of the cloud?

We can deploy (or host) this website on a cloud platform like Microsoft Azure. There are several options, but for this exercise, we use the dashboard provided by Microsoft Azure to create a VMVirtual Machine and database, set up the necessary networking, and publish the source code. The website is up and running in a few clicks, and we get a URL to access the website over the Internet. With this URL, anyone can access the website across the globe. As our little website gets popular, traffic increases over ...