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Cloud integration

Cloud integration

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Cloud integration

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- [Instructor] We need to talk just a little bit about cloud integration. So let's go ahead and just give a definition for cloud computing. Sometimes there's some mystery around the cloud. So here's a definition from NIST Special Publication 800-145 where cloud computing is defined as a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient on-demand network access to a shared pool of resources that can be rapidly provisioned and de-provision with minimal effort. And again, I paraphrased a little bit here, but we have a couple of really important pieces, which is why we're also interested in moving to the cloud, right? So, you know, ubiquitous access, we can access our cloud-based resources from anywhere. We can scale up or down as necessary, because we're utilizing a shared pool of resources at the cloud service provider. So, you know, whereas realistically, if everything I had was on prem and I needed to spin up a hundred servers, that's going to take a lot of time. It's going to cost a lot of…

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