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Infrastructure

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Infrastructure is a loose term that developers use to refer to the lower level components that hold up an application. At the base level, physical hardware and the servers that things run on are definitely infrastructure. But networking is also infrastructure. As are databases and storage.

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What's cloud?

Cloud is how companies rent infrastructure over the internet.

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