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# About Gcore cloud

Gcore Edge Cloud is a suite of cloud computing services that includes Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) environments.

Computing power, databases, and applications are available to use on an as-needed basis with Gcore Edge Cloud.

The peculiarity of such a system is in on-demand delivery of resources over the Internet with a pay-as-you-go payment model. As for the equipment that hosts the resources, it is fully serviced by the provider.

**Why Cloud?**

1. **Agility**. A broad range of technologies used in cloud computing allows you to deploy all the resources you need for your ideas in a matter of minutes.
2. **Cost optimization**. Payment for Cloud depends on the actual use of resources which means that the capital expenses will be easily turned into variable expenses.
3. **World presence**. With the technology behind Cloud it is possible to deploy fast the needed resources in different geographical regions.
4. **Elasticity**. Cloud provides the ability to scale the resources at any time, depending on the current load on your business.

***In Manassas,*** ***Amsterdam, and Singapore*** the cloud platform is located in ***TIER III*** Data Centers (DCs), which are characterized by the ability to perform scheduled operations without closing the DC, as well as by round-the-clock monitoring.

***In Luxembourg***, computing services are implemented at the ***TIER IV*** security level. This type of a Data Center remains functional when any infrastructure node fails.