Infrastructure

Question 1

What is a cloud

Answer 1

Clouds are IT environments that abstract, pool, and share scalable resources across a network.

Clouds are usually created to enable cloud computing, which is the act of running workloads within that system. Neither clouds nor cloud computing are technologies unto themselves.

Clouds are environments—places where applications run.
Cloud computing is an act—the function of running a workload in a cloud.
Technologies are things—software and hardware used to build and use clouds.

Question 2

cloud infrastructure

Answer 2

Components needed for cloud computing, which includes hardware, abstracted resources, storage, and network resources.

Question 3

Virtual Machine

Answer 3

A virtual machine (VM) is a virtual environment that functions as a virtual computer system with its own CPU, memory, network interface, and storage, created on a physical hardware system (located off- or on-premises)

However, virtualization is a technology that allows you to create multiple simulated environments or dedicated resources from a single, physical hardware system, and clouds are IT environments that abstract, pool, and share scalable resources across a network. To put it simply, virtualization is a technology, where cloud is an environment.