What Is the Cloud?
The cloud is a method of utilizing powerful computers over the internet instead of relying solely on local devices. It allows users to store data remotely and access it anytime, alleviating storage issues on personal devices. Additionally, many online services and applications depend on cloud computing for their functionality.
- ▪The cloud is essentially storage space on the internet.
- ▪Services like Google Drive, iCloud, and Dropbox are examples of cloud storage.
- ▪Companies can rent computing resources from cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.
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| Original publisher | DEV.to (Top) |
| Canonical URL | https://dev.to/krk8/what-is-the-cloud-52kh |
| Publication time | Sun, 24 May 2026 07:12:29 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-24T07:37:31.206Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-24T07:37:31.206Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3945009) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Kazuki Kimoto Posted on May 24 What Is the Cloud? #beginners #cloud #cloudcomputing #codenewbie Simply put, “The cloud is a way to use someone else’s powerful computers through the internet.” You might be thinking: “Wait… what do you mean by someone else’s computer?” And honestly… yeah, fair question. But that’s basically the idea. For example, imagine your phone suddenly says: “Storage Almost Full” Pain. Especially on iPhones.
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