Companies that own massive computer centers and rent out computing power. Think of them as tech landlords.
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud are the biggest cloud providers.
“Cloud provider” is not a single service; it refers to the company that operates cloud data centers and offers many services (compute, storage, databases, networking, AI) on a pay-as-you-go basis. AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) are examples of cloud providers.