| bananaking21 said: can their be a td:dr version?  |
What is the Cloud?
"Amazon has a cloud that powers websites. Sony has a cloud that streams game video so you can play a game that you don’t have on your machine. Now Xbox Live has a cloud that somehow powers games. Cloud doesn’t seem to actually mean anything anymore, or it has so many meanings that it’s useless as a marketing word.
Let me explain this simply: when companies talk about their cloud, all they are saying is that they have a huge amount of servers ready to run whatever you need them to run. That’s all."
It talks a lot about dedicated servers and how it doesnt cost them a ton of money, no host advantage etc. There is definitely advantages to the cloud. Just understand what theyre doing with it is the hard part. This has left fans misguided, confused, and angry in some situations.
