Explain the cloud like I'm 10

Question 1

Cloud storage

Answer 1

All the methods to store data in the cloud

Question 2

Operation expenditer vs Capital expenditure

Answer 2

OpEX is an ongoing cost for running a product while CapEX is funds used to buy the product (cloud vs onprem)

Question 3

Native programming

Answer 3

A way of programming based on the unreliability of the cloud infrastructure so reliability need to be implemented software

Question 4

IaaS, PaaS, Saas

Answer 4

1) renting computers (hardware and power)
2) can be a platform or a set of high-level services for developers to build and deploy applications
3) Software

Question 5

Serverless

Answer 5

evolution of VMs and containers, developers upload a function (code) into a serverless service, when requested it execute the code

Question 6

Content delivery network (CDN)

Answer 6

Network that provide the service to users with a set of datacenters distributed across the world and synced