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The 48 pages that link to Cloud computing, each with the reason it gives.

• Economies of scaleRelated: Providers spread data-center infrastructure costs across many customers.

• InternetRelated: Internet connectivity lets users access remote storage, software, and processing resources.

• Content delivery networkNarrower topic: CDNs are a specialized part of cloud infrastructure focused on distributing content.

• Distributed computingNarrower topic: Cloud platforms provide much of the infrastructure used to build distributed systems.

• Computer networkRelated: Cloud services depend on networks to provide remote storage and computation.

• Data centerCompared with: Cloud computing is a service model that may run on data centers rather than a facility type.

• Submarine communications cableRelated: Submarine capacity connects data centers and users across continents.

• High-performance computingCompared with: Cloud platforms offer flexible capacity, while traditional HPC centers emphasize tightly coupled systems and specialized workloads.

• Virtual machineNarrower topic: Virtual machines are a common unit for provisioning compute capacity in cloud platforms.

• Software engineeringRelated: Cloud platforms change how software is deployed, scaled, and operated.

• Make-or-buy decisionRelated: Cloud adoption often replaces internally operated information technology with purchased services.

• Software as a serviceNarrower topic: SaaS is the application layer of a broader model that also supplies storage and computing power.

• Data sovereigntyRelated: Distributed infrastructure makes the location and jurisdiction of stored or processed data harder to identify.

• Enterprise resource planningCompared with: Cloud ERP shifts hosting and much infrastructure management to a service provider.

• Vendor lock-inNarrower topic: Cloud customers can become dependent on provider-specific services and infrastructure.

• Time-sharingRelated: Cloud platforms extend shared-resource computing to large pools of network-accessible machines.

• Cloud gamingNarrower topic: Remote servers supply the processing resources that execute streamed games.

• Edge computingCompared with: Edge computing shifts some workloads away from the centralized data centers typical of cloud services.

• Amazon Web ServicesNarrower topic: AWS is a commercial implementation of the broader cloud computing model.

• Mainframe computerCompared with: Cloud platforms offer elastic, distributed infrastructure as an alternative to owning centralized mainframe capacity.

• BroadbandRelated: Broadband connects users to remote storage, software, and processing resources.

• Cloud storageNarrower topic: Cloud storage is one kind of service within the broader cloud-computing model.

• Internet backboneRelated: Cloud services depend on backbone links connecting data centers, providers, and customers.

• Microsoft 365Narrower topic: Microsoft 365 depends on cloud infrastructure for storage, collaboration, and hosted services.

• Service-level agreementRelated: Cloud providers publish SLAs for uptime, support, and service-specific performance.

• Microsoft AzureNarrower topic: Azure is Microsoft’s implementation of this broader model.

• Information and communications technologyBroader topic: It lets organizations access ICT infrastructure without owning all the underlying hardware.

• Software architectureRelated: Cloud platforms shape choices about deployment, scaling, and managed services.

• Thin clientNarrower topic: Cloud services extend the thin-client model beyond an organization's own server room.

• Jeff BezosNarrower topic: Amazon Web Services, built during Bezos’s leadership, helped establish cloud computing as a major industry.

• Mobile healthRelated: Cloud services can store and process health data collected by mobile devices.

• Denial-of-service attackNarrower topic: Cloud platforms provide scalable capacity and managed defenses, but remain attack targets.

• Industry 4.0Related: It enables industrial data storage and analysis beyond individual machines.

• Information technologyRelated: Cloud services deliver processing and storage without requiring local infrastructure.

• WebmailNarrower topic: Webmail relies on remotely hosted mailboxes and provider-operated computing infrastructure.

• ChromebookNarrower topic: Chromebooks are designed to work closely with applications and storage hosted online.

• Fourth Industrial RevolutionRelated: Cloud infrastructure lets organizations pool and scale the computing behind connected services.

• Grid computingCompared with: Clouds emphasize elastic service delivery, while grids federate resources across administrative domains.

• Information AgeRelated: It shifted storage and computation from personal machines to networked services.

• Linus TorvaldsRelated: Linux and Git underpin much of the infrastructure used to build and operate cloud services.

• 2010sRelated: Cloud infrastructure supported the decade’s large-scale apps, storage, and streaming.

• Larry EllisonNarrower topic: Ellison’s changing stance toward cloud services shaped Oracle’s response to a major industry shift.

• System softwareRelated: Cloud platforms depend on system software to manage servers, storage, and virtual machines.

• G-CloudNarrower topic: G-Cloud provides a procurement route for cloud-based services.

• Google Cloud PlatformNarrower topic: Google Cloud is one provider within this broader model of remotely delivered computing.

• Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network ComputingCompared with: Cloud resources are centrally provisioned and paid for, unlike BOINC’s donated volunteer devices.

• Computer clusterCompared with: Cloud computing describes a service and provisioning model, not necessarily a fixed group of machines.

• Computer science and engineeringRelated: Applies system design at the scale of shared, distributed infrastructure.