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+id: cloud-provider
+name: Cloud Provider
+full-link: /docs/concepts/cluster-administration/cloud-providers
+tags:
+- community
+short-description: >
+  Cloud provider is a company that offers cloud computing platform that can run Kubernetes clusters.
+long-description: >
+  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. 
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