THE CLOUD IS A VERY LARGE COMPUTER.

From far away it looks like one soft shape you rent by the second. Up close it is machines, cables, software and people, arranged so you never have to think about them. Keep scrolling and take it apart.

01 / DATA CENTRES

INSIDE, IT'S A BUILDING.

Every cloud region is a set of data centres: long aisles of racks, each holding dozens of servers, fed by redundant power, cooling and fibre running overhead. You are flying down one of the aisles.

02 / THE PRIMITIVES

COMPUTE. STORAGE. NETWORK.

Everything a cloud sells is built from three things. Compute runs your code. Storage keeps your data. The network connects them to each other and to the world. Hover or tap one to isolate it.

03 / VIRTUALISATION

ONE MACHINE BECOMES MANY.

A hypervisor slices each physical server into virtual machines that each believe they own the hardware. Containers go one layer further, packing isolated applications onto a shared operating system: lighter, faster, denser.

04 / DISTRIBUTED SERVICES

ONE APP, MANY SMALL SERVICES.

Modern systems are split into small services that each do one job and talk over the network. A single tap on a phone can fan out into dozens of calls. Click anywhere in the world to send a request through it.

or click anywhere in the world

05 / ELASTICITY

CAPACITY THAT FOLLOWS DEMAND.

Instead of buying servers for the busiest day of the year, the cloud adds instances as traffic rises and removes them as it falls. The autoscaler always lags a little: push the traffic and watch it catch up.

TRAFFIC30%

REQ/S: 0
INSTANCES: 0
P95 LATENCY: 0 ms

06 / REGIONS & ZONES

SPREAD OUT, SO NOTHING FAILS TOGETHER.

A cloud is divided into regions, and every region into availability zones: separate buildings with their own power and network. Run in three zones and losing one is a non-event. Take a zone down.

or click any region

07 / GLOBAL

ONE PLANET-SIZED COMPUTER.

Regions are linked by private fibre under oceans and across continents. Data is replicated between them, content is cached near users, and every request is routed to the nearest healthy copy.

or click any region

08 / THE WHOLE ECOSYSTEM

NOT A PLACE. A WAY OF BUILDING.

Pay for what you use, scale in minutes, fail without falling over. Underneath it is still the same three things you watched unfold: compute, storage and network, turned into a utility.

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