--- title: Cloud Explained in 5 Minutes | daily.dev description: A beginner-friendly explanation of what cloud computing actually is, framed as renting exactly the compute, storage, database, and networking resources you... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/cloud-explained-in-5-minutes-ndwhrvxty twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Cloud Explained in 5 Minutes | daily.dev og:description: A beginner-friendly explanation of what cloud computing actually is, framed as renting exactly the compute, storage, database, and networking resources you... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/cloud-explained-in-5-minutes-ndwhrvxty og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ndwhrVXTy.png og:image:alt: Cloud Explained in 5 Minutes og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Cloud Explained in 5 Minutes **[TechWorld with Nana](https://daily.dev/sources/techworldwithnana)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A beginner-friendly explanation of what cloud computing actually is, framed as renting exactly the compute, storage, database, and networking resources you need, when you need them, from providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud who own physical data centers. It walks through why self-hosting servers is impractical at scale, breaks down the confusing landscape of cloud services into four core categories, and explains why the world moved to the cloud. The video is sponsored by AMD, which pitches its EPYC server CPUs (up to 192 cores/384 threads) as the hardware powering many of these data centers. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What are the four basic categories that most cloud services fall into Nearly all cloud services fall into four categories: compute (machines that run code), storage (a place to keep files like photos and videos), databases (organized, searchable data), and networking (connecting everything together safely). Despite hundreds of confusingly named cloud products, each one is a variation on one of these four basic ideas. _Keep exploring cloud fundamentals and new service breakdowns through daily.dev as you build out your stack._ ### How many cores does the latest AMD EPYC processor have The latest generation AMD EPYC processor fits up to 192 cores and 384 threads into a single chip. This density lets cloud providers run more rented servers on less physical hardware, which is why many cloud platforms and companies running AI or heavy enterprise workloads choose EPYC for better efficiency and lower running costs. _Developers curious about the hardware behind their cloud bill can follow infrastructure news like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [What is cloud computing? 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