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.