[Discuss] What Happens when a cloud service shuts down

[blu at nedharvey.com (Edward Ned Harvey)]

> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org [mailto:discuss-
> bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org] On Behalf Of Daniel C.
> 
> Could
> someone explain to me
> what exactly the buzzword "cloud computing" means, exactly?

Cloud computing is just the scalable externally hosted offering of any
service which was traditionally hosted in-house.

For example, backups, email, storage...  Best and clearest example of cloud
computing that I know of is ... Amazon, for example, running massively
parallel compute jobs for some companies I work for, because the companies'
needs are massively spiky.  They need 1000 compute hours completed in the
shortest possible time, and then they'll have no need for any compute hours
for 3 weeks.  Etc.