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# Yandex Cloud platform architecture

The Yandex Cloud platform is a suite of reliable and secure services for all kinds of business scenarios. The platform's services use a single pool of unified hardware resources. This makes the platform readily scalable and allows to automatically ramp up infrastructure capacity as needed at minimal cost.

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The Yandex Cloud network and server hardware is deployed in [three data centers](concepts/geo-scope.md). They host the platform's basic infrastructure: virtual networks and VMs, network block storages, and [YDB](https://ydb.tech). Thanks to virtualization, the data centers can be used to create simulated computing environments that divide physical and network infrastructures between VMs.

The [platform's services](concepts/services.md) run on top of the basic infrastructure. You can use the services through a number of interfaces: the [management console](../console/index.md) and native service interfaces, the [Yandex Cloud mobile app](mobile-app/index.md), [the command-line interface (CLI)](../cli/index.md), development tools, and [APIs](api.md).