Cloud Computing Platform Tutorials & Guides

What Is a VPC? Virtual Private Clouds Explained

By default, most public cloud computing platforms offer their services through a shared tenancy model. In other words, multiple customers share resources on the same physical infrastructure; however, this presents privacy and security concerns. To mitigate the issues that arise from sharing physical infrastructure in a public cloud, cloud providers deploy each customer’s resources in...

By Adeyomola Kazeem — 27 Jun'25 Last Updated: 18 Jul'26
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A Simplified History of Cloud Computing: Timeline From Foundation to the Future

The age of computers started with physical devices — you had to see and touch them to harness their processing power. However, things are different now; you no longer need to interact with a computer directly to use it, which is all thanks to cloud computing. From sitting at our desks to floating in the...

By Adeyomola Kazeem — 24 Jun'25 Last Updated: 17 Jul'26
Facts checked by Simona Ivanovski

What Is Salesforce & How Does It Work? CRM Software Explained

Salesforce is a leading cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) platform that helps businesses manage their customer relationships by centralizing data, automating tasks and generating insights.  Despite its huge presence in global ecommerce and wide adoption across industries since its founding in 1999, those who haven’t interacted with it directly might not understand what Salesforce is...

By Kevin Kiruri — 20 Jun'25 Last Updated: 04 May'26
Facts checked by Goran Nikolić

What Is the Role of AI in Cloud Computing?

Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing how businesses operate, and cloud computing platforms are no exception. By integrating AI models into cloud services, organizations can harness the power of machine learning algorithms, predictive analytics and natural language processing to drive innovation, efficiency and growth. AI helps companies process vast amounts of data, automate complex tasks and...

By Kevin Kiruri — 08 Jun'25 Last Updated: 06 Jul'26
Facts checked by Simona Ivanovski

What Is Alibaba Cloud? Services, Uses, Benefits & Challenges Explained

While it may not have the same global presence as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud remains one of the top cloud computing providers in the world and is dominant in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, especially China.  Also known as Aliyun, Alibaba Cloud offers a large suite of services and...

By Adeyomola Kazeem — 28 May'25 Last Updated: 18 Jul'26
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What Is AWS EC2? Explaining Elastic Compute Cloud’s Features, Instance Types & More 

Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (AWS EC2) is a major service used in modern cloud computing applications. EC2 offers an alternative to traditional bare-metal instances and offers resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is ideal for workloads such as running web applications, processing big data and training machine learning models. AWS EC2 is...

By Kevin Kiruri — 27 May'25 Last Updated: 18 Jul'26
Facts checked by Igor Kurtz

Elasticity vs Scalability in Cloud Computing: What’s the Difference? 

Elasticity and scalability both involve responding to changing demands in cloud infrastructure. Although these terms are somewhat similar and often used interchangeably, they have significant differences. To sum up these differences between elasticity vs scalability, you could say that scalability is proactive while elasticity is reactive, but there’s more to it than that. Read on...

By Adeyomola Kazeem — 24 May'25 Last Updated: 17 Jul'26
Facts checked by Simona Ivanovski

What Is Serverless Computing? Meaning, Types, Benefits & Challenges

Serverless cloud computing is a modern technology for building cloud infrastructure. It redefines the application development model by decoupling code from runtime environments. The serverless framework introduces Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) execution models, where code runs as stateless applications that auto-scale on demand. The term “serverless” does not mean that there’s no underlying infrastructure. It means that...

By Kevin Kiruri — 03 May'25 Last Updated: 18 Jul'26
Facts checked by Igor Kurtz

What Is Object Storage? Definition & Benefits

Businesses and organizations generate huge amounts of unstructured data like images, sensor data, backups and log files. Traditional storage systems, such as file and block storage, struggle to handle the growing data demand. Object storage has emerged as a suitable alternative offering high scalability, cost efficiency and flexibility for managing large datasets in cloud computing....

By Kevin Kiruri — 03 May'25 Last Updated: 19 Jul'25
Facts checked by Igor Kurtz

What Is XaaS: Anything-as-a-Service Model Explained

The model of renting out IT solutions rather than selling them outright is called Anything as a Service, or XaaS for short. Ever since the introduction of cloud computing, trends have been pushing IT resources into a service-based model rather than delivering them outright as one-off purchases. Instead of buying IT products, you rent them...

By Adeyomola Kazeem — 26 Apr'25 Last Updated: 06 Jul'26
Facts checked by Simona Ivanovski