What is a cloud server and how it work?

WindowsGeek 21 Reputation points
2020-05-27T17:34:20.44+00:00

Hello,
Excuse me, I have a question and I'm sorry if it vague or odd. I'm thankful if anyone reply me clearly.
How a company make a cloud platform and provide service to others? Is Cloud a lot of servers in the world that clustered together? For example, a main server that running a hypervisor like Hyper-V with some VMs and this server clustered with a lot of servers to provide HA service.

Thank you.

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  1. Moamen Hany 1,091 Reputation points MVP
    2020-08-07T22:30:53.027+00:00

    You can study more about Azure in Arabic here
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgXl7f75iNKBA37rMEjacgygn5foMXllB

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    http://www.moamenhany.com

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  2. Dave Patrick 426.1K Reputation points MVP
    2020-05-27T17:39:37.997+00:00

    Something here may help.

    https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/what-is-azure/

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-services/cloud-services-choose-me

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  3. Andreas Baumgarten 96,266 Reputation points MVP
    2020-05-27T18:03:17.537+00:00

    The video is from 2013 but it explains how Microsoft Azure Datacenters look like:

    Windows Azure Data Centers, the 'Long Tour'

    Maybe this is helpful.

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    Andreas Baumgarten

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  4. Stephane Budo 426 Reputation points
    2020-05-28T03:11:02.81+00:00

    At a very high level, you are correct to think of a cloud provider as just another datacentre with Hyper-V hosts bundled together to provide virtual machines resources to other companies.
    There are, of course, a lot of other considerations that comes into play once you start looking at the details, such as segregation (how to ensure that a VM belonging to company A cannot communicate with the VM belonging to Company B, while running the same host), security (make sure that no unauthorised access can get through), storage, etc.

    The above is referred to as "Infrastructure as a service" or IaaS in the cloud industry, and is effectively delivering the platform to other companies to run their virtual machines, so that those companies do not need to worry about hardware maintenance, datacentre management, hypervisor updates, etc.

    In addition, two other cloud categories are available today:

    • Platform as a Service or "PaaS"
      With this type of cloud service, the delivered workloads runs at a higher level than just VMs. For example, you can get a SQL database as a resource through this offering. This means that you no longer have to take care of virtual machines the SQL database runs on. It's yet another level of abstraction from the hardware up to the application
    • Software as a Service or "SaaS"
      Yet another level above PaaS, where everything (including the application) is maintained for you and you consume only the service itself. A great example of SaaS is email in the cloud (such as outlook.com or gmail) where you only consume the emailing services without having to maintain the hardware or software that comes with it.

    There are a lot more details that can be given, which would be too long to write within this forum. For more details, I would suggest to take a look at the Azure Fundamentals site:
    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-au/learn/paths/azure-fundamentals/

    This will give you a great overview (in a modular, led learning way) of the basic of cloud computing, as well as the basics of Azure IaaS principles (VM, Storage, Networking), Security, and more...

    Cheers,

    Stephane

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