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Forums - Microsoft Discussion - PSA: Dedicated Servers is the new Cloud

Dedicated servers. It's what the ''clowd" is and always was.



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SvennoJ said:

True. Dedicated servers are however generally understood to be used for exclusive tasks, while the Azure platform is shared between lots of companies and lots of purposes.

Yep. Dedicated server is a much more defined term, though even that gets muddied up with the rise of virtualization.



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The cloud is still the cloud. See: Crackdown.

They are now simply putting an emphasis on its ability for improved dedicated server support and performance, which is something they have talked about since day one, only now calling them dedicated servers instead of the cloud.