Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.
[TIP: Remember Key words On Demand, Scalable, Self-service, and Measurable. Now take the first word from each key word which gives us OSSM which can be pronounced as Awesome