Cloud computing technology has evolved rapidly over time, and so too has the vocabulary we use to describe it. At Equinix, our How to Converse in Cloud series aims to help business and IT professionals keep up with the latest developments in cloud, including the changing terminology that goes along with them. In the early days, a “cloud” was simply any compute instance running in an off-premises location. The early cloud was also subject to the capacity limitations of the underlying hardware. Now, things have changed: Hyperscalers offer customers flexibility to scale up capacity on demand, along with a multitude…

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