Coffee Bytes with The Cloud!

🌤️☁️Why is it called the Cloud?☁️🌤️ The surprising origin of the Cloud symbol that connects the world!😮

Swami K
2 min readMar 9, 2023

Hey there! 👋 It’s @iSwamiK, and I’m back with another episode of ‘Coffee Bytes with The Cloud’! 🌤️. Today, we’re going to talk about why the Cloud is called a Cloud! ☁️

The Cloud Mystery: Why Do We Call It a Cloud? | @iSwamiK
The Cloud Mystery: Why Do We Call It a Cloud? | @iSwamiK

So, why is it called a Cloud in the first place? 🤔 Well, it’s not because it looks fluffy like a cloud in the sky! When engineers build stuff, they draw diagrams to plan it out. And to represent a network, they chose the symbol of a cloud. 🌩️

Now, you might be wondering why they chose a Cloud symbol. 🤔 Well, nobody knows for sure, but it’s a brilliant choice! Clouds are easy to draw, they can be any size, and they can have almost any shape. Networks are the same way! And just like we only see the outside of a cloud, we don’t care how a network works. 😎

A network connects things together. It can be a WiFi network connecting computers to the internet, a highway system connecting places, or a cellular network connecting phones. 📶 They are all very different in how they work and how they are built, but we use the Cloud symbol to represent all of them.

Isn’t that handy? Now, the type of Cloud we care about is created by Cloud Service Providers or just Cloud Providers. They create a compute cloud using a network of data centers linked together. Inside each data center is a network of computers connected together. 💻

That’s all for today, folks! Thanks for joining me on this Cloud adventure! ☁️ Don’t forget to tune in next time when we talk more about Cloud Computers! 🤖

P.S. — Hey, all you Cloud fans out there! ☁️👋 If you loved this episode, you won’t want to miss Tony Stark’s cut of ‘Coffee Bytes with The Cloud’, where he brings in the one and only Doctor Bruce Banner as a special guest! 🤯 But don’t worry, I’ll be back with more Cloud goodness to compete with Tony! 🌤️🤖

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Swami K
Swami K

Written by Swami K

Senior Director of DevOps & SRE at Kissflow | Integrating Netflix DevOps Culture & Google SRE Practices to Empower Our Engineering Team 🚀🔧

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