Lesson 4: Cloud platforms: what you rent and what it locks
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Module 10 · Lesson 4 · About 50 minutes · Needs: Module 2 lesson 3 (residency), Module 4 lesson 3 (the model port), Module 5 lesson 2 (retention), Module 7 lesson 3 (managed against self-operated). No hosted calls: the cloud steps are given from Google's docs, not run
The situation
Week 10. Funmi wants Northdesk on one cloud. Helen agrees on one condition: nothing they cannot leave. Leila brings Tallis's contract: its data, including model processing, stays in the UK. Gareth asks: which models can you actually call from London, on which cloud, today?
The running example is a Tallis employee's question, "How many days of annual leave do I get?" (30 days, document t-tallis-d002), followed from the model endpoint it may use, to the bucket its trace lands in, to the adapter that reads the cloud's reply.