https://www.chenk.top/en/tags/iaas/Recent content in IaaS on Chen Kai BlogHugoenWed, 01 Feb 2023 09:00:00 +0000https://www.chenk.top/en/cloud-computing/fundamentals/Wed, 01 Feb 2023 09:00:00 +0000https://www.chenk.top/en/cloud-computing/fundamentals/<p><figure class="article-figure"> <img src="https://blog-pic-ck.oss-cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/posts/en/cloud-computing/fundamentals/illustration_1.png" alt="Cloud Computing (1): Fundamentals and Architecture — Chapter overview" loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="content-image"> </figure> </p> <p>Every team building software in 2025 inherits the same buy-or-rent question their predecessors faced — only the answer has flipped. Twenty years ago you put hardware in a closet; today you describe the hardware in YAML and a global provider conjures it up in seconds, bills it by the second, and tears it down when you stop paying. Cloud computing is not just &ldquo;someone else&rsquo;s computer&rdquo;. It is a programmable, metered, multi-tenant abstraction over compute, storage and networking that has fundamentally changed how businesses are built and how engineers spend their day.</p>