Cloud Computing
Cloud computing means accessing computing resources (servers, storage, databases, processing power) on demand over the internet, instead of buying and maintaining your own physical hardware. A provider like AWS, Google Cloud, or OVH hosts the infrastructure, billed based on actual usage.
In practice, this lets a SaaS platform scale up within minutes during a traffic spike (a product launch, a marketing campaign) without having bought and configured servers in advance. It's also what makes it possible to spin up a new database or test environment quickly, with no physical setup or hardware lead time involved.
The classic cloud trap is a bill that climbs without anyone noticing why: resources left running unnecessarily, an undersized or oversized service, or poorly managed data transfer can quickly drive up costs. Keeping a close eye on actual usage and re-evaluating sizing regularly avoids that kind of bad surprise, especially as the product grows.
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