It’s a bunch of someone else’s computers that you can rent processing time and storage on, so you don’t have to buy the entire machine yourself.
It’s beneficial because you don’t have to deal with owning the computers so if they break its not your problem. It’s also beneficial because you can just buy more time if you suddenly need more computing done for a few days or weeks a year but not the rest of the year.
It can be used pretty much as any other headless (without its own display) computer.
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