What Does Distributed Cloud Mean?

Distributed cloud is a business model that extends a public cloud provider’s infrastructure and services to geographically distributed satellite locations, each with its own processing capabilities.

Techopedia Explains Distributed Cloud

Distributed cloud allows public cloud customers to choose where their data will be processed and stored. Historically, the location of where data was being processed was not a concern for cloud computing customers. It was actually one of the selling features that inspired the purposely vague label cloud.