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{{Introductory article|Cloud computing}}
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The two words in the phrase ''cloud computing'' have the following interpretations:

* '''Cloud''': As a noun, this is a metaphor for the [[Internet]],<ref name=Metaphor>{{cite web|url=
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This is not the same as all [[Website |websites]] on the Internet, because there are many that are [[Introduction_to_Cloud_computing#Exclusions |excluded]] from cloud computing.

==Cloud balancing
, bursting and spann and bursting==

''Cloud balancing'' is the day-to-day use by a consumer of more than one cloud provider for load balancing, and ''cloud bursting'' is the automatic overflow of demand to a different cloud provider only at peak times.<ref name=GoogleVocab/><ref name=BalanceAndBurst/>

==Cloud spanning==⏎
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''Cloud spanning'' is the use of more than one cloud service to run thedifferent components of an application.<ref name=GoogleVocab/>

==Cloud clients==

A client computer, or simply a [[Client_(computing) |client]], is an [[User (computing) |end-user]] access point to a computer system, and the term came to prominence with [[Client-server computing |client-server computing]].

(contracted; show full)*[[Platform as a service|Platform as a Service]]
*[[Software as a service|Software as a Service]]

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