Cloud Computing Platform Tutorials & Guides

13 Common Cloud Computing Vulnerabilities & How to Manage Them

Cloud computing vulnerabilities refer to weaknesses in cloud systems, services or configurations that attackers can exploit to gain unauthorized access with bad intentions, such as disrupting operations or compromising data integrity. As cloud adoption increases, addressing these vulnerabilities is key to ensuring cloud security and protecting sensitive data. Some of the most severe impacts of...

By Mercy Wawira — 08 Aug'24 Last Updated: 05 Apr'25
Facts checked by Simona Ivanovski

Cloud Computing Infrastructure: Definition, Components, Delivery Models, Adoption Models and Benefits

Cloud computing infrastructure is the suite of servers, storage, networks and software that deliver cloud computing resources. Servers are physical computers in the data centers, while storage is the hardware that records and accesses data. The software allows access to the servers without a physical interface, and the network side connects the physical and virtual...

By Adeyomola Kazeem — 02 Aug'24 Last Updated: 12 Jun'25
Facts checked by Goran Nikolić

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud: Definition, Features, How It Works, Use Cases and Pricing

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a service that creates a logically isolated network in AWS. It offers a form of security for cloud computing resources, as it prevents just anyone from having access. AWS VPC offers traffic mirroring, security groups, network access control lists, IP addressing, network managers and flow logs, among other features....

By Adeyomola Kazeem — 01 Aug'24 Last Updated: 12 Jun'25
Facts checked by Igor Kurtz

13 Disadvantages of Cloud Computing

Cloud computing has become the backbone of major technological trends such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and the Internet of Things. The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 pushed companies to adopt cloud computing even more quickly. The use of cloud computing services jumped as businesses moved online to handle remote work and digital services. In early...

By Mercy Wawira — 01 Aug'24 Last Updated: 05 Apr'25
Facts checked by Goran Nikolić

AWS Resource Hierarchy: Organizations, OUs, Member Accounts and Resources

The AWS resource hierarchy is a multi-level access management system that helps ensure the accounts in AWS Organizations remain compliant, secure and within budget. It typically features four entities: organizations, organizational units, member accounts and resources. An AWS organization is a container that consolidates multiple AWS accounts. However, an organizational unit is a subdivision within...

By Adeyomola Kazeem — 30 Jul'24 Last Updated: 12 Jun'25

What Is Amazon S3? Features, Use Cases, Pricing & Benefits

What is Amazon S3? S3 stands for “Simple Storage Service” and it is a highly scalable, reliable and cost-effective cloud storage service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It offers object storage designed to store and retrieve any amount of data anywhere on the web. S3’s primary features include high durability, data availability and security,...

By Mercy Wawira — 23 Jul'24 Last Updated: 12 Jun'25
Facts checked by Goran Nikolić

What is AWS Lambda? Definition, Features, How It Works, Use Cases, Pricing, and Benefits

Amazon Web Services is a huge ecosystem of hundreds of different services that serve different use cases. AWS Lambda is Amazon’s solution to serverless computing. Developers can use it to deploy code without worrying about infrastructure. A good compliment to AWS Elastic Beanstalk. AWS Lambda automatically responds to predefined events by executing a set of...

By Kevin Kiruri — 19 Jul'24 Last Updated: 12 Jun'25
Facts checked by Simona Ivanovski

What Is Amazon Web Services? Definition, How It Works, Products, Benefits, and Disadvantages

Amazon is an absolute behemoth in the tech industry, thanks in no small part to AWS, its web hosting and cloud computing service. You may have seen the acronym around the web and wondered: “What is AWS?” Well, wonder no more and read on for the full answer.

By Kevin Kiruri — 11 Jul'24 Last Updated: 12 Jun'25

Types of Cloud Computing: Deployment Models and Services Explained

Cloud computing is a broad term that refers to any digital service or resource that is delivered to the user over the internet. The different types of cloud computing terms can be subdivided into two categories: the deployment model (aka how the product is delivered), and the service type or “service layer” (aka what product...

By Aleksander Hougen — 11 Jul'24 Last Updated: 11 Jun'25

The 5 Key Cloud Computing Characteristics & Other Important Concepts

When cloud computing was first coming into its own as an industry in 2011, the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) published a landmark paper1  that laid out five core cloud computing characteristics, as well as four deployment models and three service models. Although the paper lays out the essential examples of cloud computing,...

By Aleksander Hougen — 11 Jul'24 Last Updated: 09 Jun'25