Cloud Computing: Defintion, Types, Benefits, Risks and Uses

What Is AWS Fargate & How Does It Work? Serverless Compute Engine Explained

Businesses are embracing containerized applications to improve flexibility, speed up deployment and scale on demand. However, managing containers at scale poses challenges, especially when it comes to provisioning compute resources, handling updates and managing infrastructure. AWS Fargate offers a powerful yet simple solution within the Amazon Web Services (AWS) ecosystem. AWS Fargate allows you to...

By Kevin Kiruri — 06 Jul'25 Last Updated: 05 Sep'26
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What Is Adobe Creative Cloud & How Does It Work? Pricing, Apps & More 

Adobe Creative Cloud is a sprawling 26-app-wide creative suite, which can make it confusing to understand exactly what Adobe Creative Cloud is. In short, it offers flexible access to a diverse set of tools for creating and revising digital art, including images, video and audio. Plus, as a cloud offering, Adobe Creative Cloud allows you...

By Adeyomola Kazeem — 06 Jul'25 Last Updated: 02 Sep'26
Facts checked by Simona Ivanovski

Azure Service Fabric vs Kubernetes: Definition & Key Differences

Azure Service Fabric and Kubernetes are among the popular options for container orchestration and life cycle management in microservices architecture in cloud computing. Azure Service Fabric offers a higher level of abstraction compared to Kubernetes, so it’s much easier to start using. Meanwhile, Kubernetes offers a higher level of customization. Even though they generally serve...

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

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: 06 Sep'26
Facts checked by Simona Ivanovski

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: 15 Sep'26
Facts checked by Simona Ivanovski

Azure Front Door vs Application Gateway: Load-Balancing Options Compared

Load balancers are network services that sit between a fleet of resources and incoming requests, where they manage traffic distribution. They distribute inbound traffic in a way that ensures single resource units are not overwhelmed, ensuring optimal performance, scalability and availability. Azure Front Door and Azure Application Gateway are two of the load-balancing services you’ll...

By Adeyomola Kazeem — 22 Jun'25 Last Updated: 05 Aug'26
Facts checked by Simona Ivanovski

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: 02 Sep'26
Facts checked by Simona Ivanovski

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: 31 Aug'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 SaaS (Software as a Service) in Cloud Computing? Meaning, Examples, Pros & Cons Explained for 2026

Cloud computing solutions delivered through the Software as a Service (SaaS) model are everywhere these days. From streaming services like Netflix and Hulu to productivity services like Slack and Microsoft 365, SaaS has become part of our daily lives, both professionally and personally — here’s a full breakdown of SaaS statistics. SaaS is one of...

By Adeyomola Kazeem — 20 Feb'25 Last Updated: 15 Sep'26
Facts checked by Simona Ivanovski