cloud computing

What cloud computing actually is, the IaaS/PaaS/SaaS service models, and how AWS, Azure, and GCP compare on services, pricing, and strengths.

The United States hosts more data centers than any other country by every count, but the totals vary from about 3,800 to 5,400 depending on the database. Here is the ranking, why facility counts and megawatts tell different stories, and what the IEA says about data centre electricity.

"The cloud" is just someone else's computers — but at a scale and with management that change everything. Here's how AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud actually deliver computing as a utility.