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Cloud infrastructure components

Cloud infrastructure components

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Cloud infrastructure components

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- [Narrator] Before we dive into a discussion of cloud platform and infrastructure security, it's crucial that you have a solid understanding of the different components of a cloud solution. Let's take a few minutes to review those. Compute resources are the cornerstone of cloud computing. The most common way that we leverage computing in the cloud today is through the use of virtualized server instances. Cloud customers request server instances from providers who then automatically generate the server and provide the customer with access. The server created for the customer doesn't physically exist as a separate device, but it's run as a tiny fragment of a much larger piece of hardware through the magic of virtualization. Virtual server instances aren't the only way that the cloud provides computing capacity to customers. Serverless computing provides customers with the ability to execute functions in a variety of programming languages and at large-scale on an infrastructure that's…

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