Day 1: Understanding Cloud Computing — Service and Deployment Models Explained with a Biryani Analogy

Yesterday I announced I'm blogging daily on AWS & DevOps. Here's Day 1 — the fundamentals everything else builds on.

## What is Cloud Computing?

Instead of setting up and maintaining infrastructure on-premises, you now access computing resources remotely over the internet — this is Cloud Computing.

"Cloud" refers to a network that provides resources over the internet, accessible whenever needed. It evolved from grid computing, virtualization, and distributed computing. All you need to use it is a web browser.

As per NIST, cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (networks, servers, storage, applications, services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort.