Preface
The cloud has risen in popularity and function in the past few years. Storing data and consuming computing resources on a third party's hardware reduces the overhead of operations by keeping the number of people and owned assets low. For a small company, this could be an opportunity to expand operations, whereas for a large company, this could help to streamline costs. The cloud not only abstracts the management of the hardware that an end user consumes, it also creates an on-demand provisioning capability that was previously not available to consumers. Traditionally, provisioning new hardware or virtualized hardware was a fairly manual process that would often lead to a backlog of requests, thus stigmatizing this way of provisioning resources ...
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