IT lexicon Infra & Ops Cloud

Cloud

Infra & Ops På svenska → Updated: 2026-05-23

Compute, storage and services you rent over the internet instead of owning yourself.

"The cloud" is nothing more than "someone else's computer". The difference from 90s web hosting is the scale: the provider has millions of machines and you can boot a new server in 30 seconds for SEK 0.01/hour.

Three tiers: IaaS (you rent a server, manage everything), PaaS (you upload code, the platform handles the rest), SaaS (you pay for a finished product like Gmail).

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