What is a Cloud Server?

A cloud server is a virtual server operated from a remotely located and third-party provider managed datacenter. As opposed to traditional physical servers, cloud servers are virtualized components of hosted physical infrastructure managed by the third-party providers. These virtualized server resources-compute, memory, OS-are distributed amongst customers users on-demand via online.  

These servers are designed in such a way that they would be able to auto-scale as per requirement and not limited to a particular bandwidth barrier.  

Servers in cloud are flexible resource-wise, allocating internal CPU, memory, and storage, therefore scaled up and down depending on the demands. They also work for multiple workloads, like hosting websites, running applications and also data processing. Cloud providers offer managed cloud services that handle a system’s operation, performance upgrades, and security patches, thus minimizing direct management.  

Generally, there are four types of cloud servers:  

Public cloud servers share an infrastructure with multiple users as and when requested, though they are kept separated due to virtualized environments.

Private cloud servers are owned by one organization and provide increased resource control as well as security.

Hybrid cloud servers are a combination of both public and private clouds and are optimized for specific needs.

Multi cloud servers are a combination of multiple public cloud or private cloud, hybrid cloud components.

Cloud virtual servers tend to be used everywhere because they are scalable, cost-effective, and easy to deploy virtually all over the regions. Some of the common providers include AWS, Azure, Oracle and Google Cloud.