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¿Qué es la computación en la nube?

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¿Alguna vez te has preguntado qué es la computación en la nube? Es la entrega de servicios

informáticos a través de Internet, que también se conoce como la nube. Estos servicios incluyen
servidores, almacenamiento, bases de datos, redes, software, análisis e inteligencia. La
computación en la nube ofrece una innovación más rápida, recursos flexibles y economías de
escala.

¿Por qué la computación en la nube suele ser más

barata de usar?
La computación en la nube es la entrega de servicios informáticos a través de Internet mediante
el uso de un modelo de precios de pago por uso. Por lo general, solo paga por los servicios en la
nube que usa, lo que lo ayuda a:

Reduzca sus costos operativos.

Ejecute su infraestructura de manera más eficiente.
Escale a medida que cambien las necesidades de su negocio.

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To put it another way, cloud computing is a way to rent compute power and storage from
someone else's datacenter. You can treat cloud resources like you would your resources in your
own datacenter. When you're done using them, you give them back. You're billed only for what
you use.

Instead of maintaining CPUs and storage in your datacenter, you rent them for the time that you
need them. The cloud provider takes care of maintaining the underlying infrastructure for you.
The cloud enables you to quickly solve your toughest business challenges, and bring cutting-
edge solutions to your users.

Why should I move to the cloud?

The cloud helps you move faster and innovate in ways that were once nearly impossible.

In our ever-changing digital world, two trends emerge:

Teams deliver new features to their users at record speeds.

Users expect an increasingly rich and immersive experience with their devices and with
software.

Software releases were once scheduled in terms of months or even years. Today, teams release
features in smaller batches that are often scheduled in days or weeks. Some teams even deliver
software updates continuously--sometimes with multiple releases within the same day.

Think of all the ways you interact with devices that you couldn't do a few years ago. Many devices
can recognize your face and respond to voice commands. Augmented reality changes the way
you interact with the physical world. Household appliances are even beginning to act intelligently.
These technologies are only a few examples, and many of them are powered by the cloud.

To power your services and deliver innovative and novel user experiences more quickly, the cloud
provides on-demand access to:

A nearly limitless pool of raw compute, storage, and networking components.

Speech recognition and other cognitive services that help make your application stand out
from the crowd.
Analytics services that deliver telemetry data from your software and devices.

What are some cloud computing advantages?

There are several benefits that a cloud environment has over a physical environment. For
example, cloud-based applications employ a myriad of related strategies:
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Reliability: Depending on the service-level agreement that you choose, your cloud-based
applications can provide a continuous user experience with no apparent downtime even
when things go wrong.

Scalability: Applications in the cloud can be scaled in two ways, while taking advantage of
autoscaling:
Vertically: Computing capacity can be increased by adding RAM or CPUs to a virtual
machine.
Horizontally: Computing capacity can be increased by adding instances of a resource,
such as adding more virtual machines to your configuration.

Elasticity: Cloud-based applications can be configured to always have the resources they
need.

Agility: Cloud-based resources can be deployed and configured quickly as your application
requirements change.

Geo-distribution: Applications and data can be deployed to regional datacenters around

the globe, so your customers always have the best performance in their region.

Disaster recovery: By taking advantage of cloud-based backup services, data replication,

and geo-distribution, you can deploy your applications with the confidence that comes from
knowing that your data is safe in the event that disaster should occur.

What are cloud service models?

Cloud computing falls into one of the following computing models. If you've been around cloud
computing for a while, you've probably seen the terms infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform
as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS) for the different cloud service models. These
models define the different level of shared responsibility that a cloud provider and cloud tenant
are responsible for.

Computing Description
model

IaaS This cloud service model is the closest to managing physical servers. A cloud provider
keeps the hardware up to date, but operating system maintenance and network
configuration is left to the cloud tenant. For example, Azure virtual machines are fully
operational virtual compute devices running in Microsoft's datacenters. An advantage of
this cloud service model is rapid deployment of new compute devices. Setting up a new
virtual machine is considerably faster than procuring, installing, and configuring a
physical server.

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Computing Description
model

PaaS This cloud service model is a managed hosting environment. The cloud provider
manages the virtual machines and networking resources, and the cloud tenant deploys
their applications into the managed hosting environment. For example, Azure App
Services provides a managed hosting environment where developers can upload their
web applications without having to deal with the physical hardware and software
requirements.

SaaS In this cloud service model, the cloud provider manages all aspects of the application
environment, such as virtual machines, networking resources, data storage, and
applications. The cloud tenant only needs to provide their data to the application
managed by the cloud provider. For example, Office 365 provides a fully working version
of Office that runs in the cloud. All that you need to do is create your content, and Office
365 takes care of everything else.

The following illustration demonstrates the services that might run in each of the cloud service
models.

The following chart illustrates the various levels of responsibility between a cloud provider and a
cloud tenant.

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What is serverless computing?

Overlapping with PaaS, serverless computing enables developers to build applications faster by
eliminating the need for them to manage infrastructure. With serverless applications, the cloud
service provider automatically provisions, scales, and manages the infrastructure required to run
the code. Serverless architectures are highly scalable and event-driven. They use resources only
when a specific function or trigger occurs.

In understanding the definition of serverless computing, it's important to note that servers are
still running the code. The serverless name comes from the fact that the tasks associated with
infrastructure provisioning and management are invisible to the developer. This approach enables
developers to increase their focus on the business logic and deliver more value to the core of the
business. Serverless computing helps teams increase their productivity and bring products to
market faster. It allows organizations to better optimize resources and stay focused on
innovation.

What are public, private, and hybrid clouds?

There are three deployment models for cloud computing: public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid
cloud. Each deployment model has different aspects that you should consider as you migrate to
the cloud.

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Deployment Description
model

Public cloud Services are offered over the public internet and available to anyone who wants to
purchase them. Cloud resources like servers and storage are owned and operated by a
third-party cloud service provider and delivered over the internet.

Private Computing resources are used exclusively by users from one business or organization. A
cloud private cloud can be physically located at your organization's on-site datacenter. It also
can be hosted by a third-party service provider.

Hybrid Este entorno informático combina una nube pública y una nube privada al permitir que
cloud los datos y las aplicaciones se compartan entre ellos.

La siguiente imagen ilustra varios de los conceptos de computación en la nube que se presentan
en esta unidad. En este ejemplo, se demuestran varios factores cuando está considerando dónde
implementar un servidor de base de datos en un entorno de nube híbrida. A medida que sus
recursos se trasladan de las instalaciones a las fuera de las instalaciones, sus costos se reducen y
sus requisitos de administración disminuyen.

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