Cloud Basics
Instead of owning servers, companies rent compute resources over the internet.
What is the cloud?
The three largest cloud providers are AWS, Azure, and this one.
What is Google Cloud?
This city's downtown office sits a five-minute walk from a square famous for its New Year's Eve ball drop, and the building itself once housed a major newspaper.
What is New York City?
This Datadog product is used to monitor infrastructure metrics like CPU, memory, and disk.
What is Infrastructure Monitoring?
Boston is a city of firsts: first public park, public library, public school — and this transit line, opened in 1897, holds the title of oldest subway system in the U.S..
What is the Tremont Street Subway (MBTA)?
Instead of one large application, this architecture splits apps into smaller services.
What are microservices?
In AWS, this service provides virtual servers.
What is EC2?
This European capital is built along the River Liffey and is the only non-English-speaking-turned-English-speaking capital in the EU where Guinness has been brewed since 1759.
What is Dublin?
This product helps developers trace requests across distributed systems.
What is APM (Application Performance Monitoring)?
This 2010 Ben Affleck heist film, set in Charlestown, was based on the novel "Prince of Thieves" and is famous for its real-life-inspired bank robbery scenes.
What is "The Town"?
This service allows users to run code without managing servers
What is serverless?
This type of cloud deployment combines on prem infrastructure with public cloud.
What is hybrid cloud?
This Southern Hemisphere harbor city is home to one of the most recognizable opera houses in the world and sits in the state of New South Wales.
What is Sydney?
This Datadog feature collects and searches logs in real time.
What is Log Management?
At the 2026 World Cup, this 38-year-old became the oldest player ever to score a hat trick in the tournament, and also holds the all-time record for most World Cup matches played, with 28.
Who is Lionel Messi?
Containers are commonly managed by this orchestration platform.
What is Kubernetes?
This term refers to using multiple cloud providers at once.
What is multi cloud?
This city straddles the Seine River, is nicknamed "The City of Light," and is home to a 19th-century iron tower originally built as a World's Fair entrance.
What is Paris?
This product monitors frontend user experience and performance.
What is RUM (Real User Monitoring)?
Nicknamed "The Garden State," this is the U.S. state people joke you either love or love to leave — but plenty of transplants end up calling it home for good.
What is New Jersey?
This cloud concept means you only pay for resources while they are actively running, not when idle.
What is consumption based pricing?
This cloud service model includes tools for developers to build apps without managing infrastructure.
What is Platform as a Service (PaaS)?
This South Korean capital sits along the Han River and was the host city for the 1988 Summer Olympics.
What is Seoul?
This security focused product detects threats and misconfigurations in cloud environments.
What is Cloud Security
This neighboring country is consistently ranked as the world's #1 destination for US students overall, thanks to its quality of life and post-study work visas.
What is Canada?