Architecture - 2.5 Magento Cloud

Question 1

Features and Functions

Answer 1

Magento’s Enterprise hosting solution. According to people I have talked to at Magento, this allows a single source of responsibility for anything happening at an application or hosting level. They wrote the software, and they should be the best ones to keep the software running.
Contains three areas:
• Integration: testing and development, up to 8 unique branches in different environments.
• Staging: includes database, environment variables, configurations and Fastly.
• Production: a three node high-availability system.
• http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/cloud/bk-cloud.html

Question 2

What are the advantages of Magento Cloud?

Answer 2

Magento manages it. They have invested in making it fast and a good platform to build on.

Question 3

Differences from other Magento editions?

Answer 3

This is an additional product (per my understanding). You pay the yearly fee for EE and the hosting on top of it.