Chapter 18: Cloud Computing for Multimedia Services

Web Resources

What is cloud computing? - A beginner's guide by Microsoft Azure

Simply put, cloud computing is the delivery of computing services - including servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics and intelligence - over the Internet (the cloud) to offer faster innovation, flexible resources and economies of scale ...

Demand forecast and performance prediction in peer-assisted on-demand streaming systems

Peer-assisted on-demand video streaming services are extremely large-scale distributed systems on the Internet. Automated demand forecast and performance prediction, if implemented, can help with capacity planning and quality control ...

Cloudflare: What is a CDN?

A content delivery network (CDN) refers to a geographically distributed group of servers which work together to provide fast delivery of Internet content.

Amazon CloudFront FAQs

Amazon CloudFront is a web service that gives businesses and web application developers an easy and cost effective way to distribute content with low latency and high data transfer speeds.

What latency feels like on Google's Stadia cloud gaming platform

An article that shares an experience of using Google's Stadia cloud service.

Cloudflare: What is serverless computing?

Serverless computing is a method of providing backend services on an as-used basis. A Serverless architecture allows users to write and deploy code without the hassle of worrying about the underlying infrastructure ...

AWS Edge Computing

AWS edge computing services provide infrastructure and software that move data processing and analysis as close to the end-point as necessary. This includes deploying AWS managed hardware and software to locations outside AWS data centers, and even onto customer-owned devices themselves.