People in security and computing have been saying for years - there's no cloud. There's just someone else's computer.
Right now, there's no AI. There's just someone else's work.
Stop calling generative text and image programs AI. It's inaccurate and insulting. They are just the evolution of corporate creative theft that's been going on as long as media corporations have existed.
One view of "cloud" is, its just a bunch of computers you rent.
Yes. But... you can rent very quickly. Order five more servers for your own basement, it will take days, if not weeks. Order them from your cloud provider, and you have them within some (single-digit) minutes.
When servers arrive in your basement, you'll commission them by plugging cables. In a cloud environment, you comission via software APIs you access.
😲 The scales are dropping from my eyes
Is that an invitation for more or a mock?
If the first: Being able to provision servers (and more) via software was at the heart of the "DevOps" revolution. Manual labor in server rooms replaced by automated processes. We no longer install new software versions on top of old ones manually, but throw out the whole existing thing and start all over from baseline automatically. This has boosted quality, and (surprisingly) reduced downtimes. A fun life I recently retired from.
@dj3ei it was truly a discovery moment. I always just assumed that the 'cloud' was some kind of cloud. In fact i didnt think about it. So truly to discover that a 'cloud' is just someone else's computer was a new thought for me.
Having said that, you lost me on the rest. Outside my comprehension zone. But thanks for trying., ☺️
You're welcome. I love explaining stuff.
For one (striking) example how that all works: German Rail (Deutsche Bahn = DB) got rid of their own pre-cloud computing center they had and instead now rent computing resources "in the cloud", in their case, from Amazon and Microsoft. The software that gets run is DB's, the computers it runs on are those cloud providers'. (DB was my employer before I retired some six weeks ago.)
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