Cloud infrastructure

Cloud infrastructure is the hardware and software behind online tools, like servers, storage, and networks, run in big data centres by providers such as Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. You rent what you need instead of buying your own. Every online tool a small team uses sits on cloud infrastructure, even if you never see it. You only deal with it directly if you build a custom app, run your own website hosting, or want one home for your data. In that case, the main choices are where the data is stored, how it's backed up, and who can get in. For Australian businesses, you can usually choose to keep data in Australian data centres.