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Cloud computing is now extremely important, with companies offering impressive software, sometimes for free. Cloud computing providers have the ability to do some computations at much faster pace than we could with our personal devices. They have the advantage that they might have many computers at their disposal and so can use parallelism, artificial intelligence (AI) and other means to give results quickly. They can allow us to access our data from different devices from different locations in the world. Extremely important records, such as financial records and medical records, are accessible via browsers on computers and apps on phones. According to Gartner, “The worldwide public cloud services market is forecast to grow 17% in 2020 to total $266.4 billion, up from $227.8 billion in 2019…,” [Gar19]. Chapter 28 deals with cloud computing.