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Originally Posted by Prototype
Can someone give me a coles notes to what "cloud" storage is, and what it's benefits are?
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In general, "the cloud" is a vast and mysterious network of computers spread across the globe. Generally they are owned & maintained by a company, for example Amazon is one of the biggest cloud-service providers. I put a lot of my images for websites on the Amazon cloud.
If you store something, like a video, in the cloud, it will work just like saving on a single server for your purposes, but the difference is it's actually stored on dozens or hundreds of servers in the cloud, and when you access it, the cloud will decide which server (or servers) you will retrieve it from based on speed, geographical location, etc.
There is a great deal more to cloud computing but that's the gist of cloud storage.