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There is a little bit of confusion over what it is to “be in the cloud.” Some people even mistakenly think that just being on the Internet is utilizing cloud technology.

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Bartlett, J. (2019). What Is the Cloud. In: Building Scalable PHP Web Applications Using the Cloud. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5212-3_2

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