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In brief
A giant cloud provider, capable of serving the whole world from huge data centres. The three best-known are Amazon, Microsoft and Google.
▶ Precise definition
A very large-scale cloud operator, whose scope (number of services, capacity, global reach) exceeds that of regional players by one or more orders of magnitude. The term refers primarily to AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. This should be distinguished from an integrated provider such as OVHcloud: despite the shared term ‘cloud’, they are not in the same line of business.
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