Operations → Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud Provider
A company or platform that offers managed compute, storage, networking, and infrastructure services.
Motivation
A cloud provider solves the problem of renting managed compute, storage, networking, and platform services instead of building all infrastructure yourself.
Where it fits
It belongs to operations and cloud infrastructure.
Mental model
The cloud provider is a catalog of infrastructure primitives and managed services operated at global scale.
Important details
Important concepts include regions, availability zones, identity, networking, managed databases, billing, and service limits.
Common mistakes
- Assuming cloud removes architecture responsibility.
- Ignoring cost, quotas, and regional failure modes.