Glossary term
What is Cloud computing?
In Apex Flow Academy, "Cloud computing" means: Renting computing power, storage and tools over the internet and paying for what you use, instead of buying and running your own machines. It is taught in AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup. Related terms include Data center, Region, Availability Zone (AZ) and Edge location.
- 1 course teaches it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is Cloud computing?
Renting computing power, storage and tools over the internet and paying for what you use, instead of buying and running your own machines.
Where is Cloud computing taught?
Cloud computing is defined in AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup.
AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup
Which lessons cover Cloud computing?
These lessons name it in their title or objectives:
- AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup, lesson 1.2: The six advantages of cloud computing
Which terms are related to Cloud computing?
Next to Cloud computing in the course glossaries: Data center, Region, Availability Zone (AZ) and Edge location.
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn Cloud computing?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at beginner level:
- AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup: No cloud, coding or IT experience is needed.