Cloud - Technology
Compute
The processing power used to run applications and other computing work
What's it for?
Provides the processing power needed to run software and complete computing work.
For example…
Month-end reporting is slow, so finance asks IT to give the reporting tool more compute for three days.
A finance report takes too long to run at month-end, so the data team gives the job more computing power to make sure it finishes before the meeting
Think of it like…
Compute is the engine; storage is the boot; the network is the road between them