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title: Cloud Provider
id: cloud-provider
date: 2018-04-12
full_link: /docs/concepts/cluster-administration/cloud-providers
short_description: >
Cloud provider is a company that offers cloud computing platform that can run Kubernetes clusters.
aka:
tags:
- community
---
Cloud provider is a company that offers cloud computing platform that can run Kubernetes clusters.
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Cloud providers or sometime called Cloud Service Provider (CSPs) provides cloud computing platforms. They may offer services such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) or Platform as a Service (PaaS). Cloud providers host the Kubernetes cluster and also provide services that interact with the cluster, such as Load Balancers, Storage Classes etc.