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collections/tech/grid/concepts/cloudunits.md

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+# Cloud Units
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+Cloud units are the basis for buying & selling capacity on the ThreeFold Grid (for more info see here).
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+- 1 CU = 1 compute unit
+- 1 SU = 1 storage unit
+- 1 NU = 1 network unit
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+References:
+- Cloud units the the building blocks for any Cloud / IT workload.  See definition [here](https://library.threefold.me/info/threefold#/tfgrid/farming/threefold__resource_units_calc_cloudunits)
+- Cloud units are also used to determine commercial pricing for utilisation.  See definition [here](https://library.threefold.me/info/threefold#/cloud/threefold__pricing?id=discount-levels)
+- Low level primitive [cloud functions](https://library.threefold.me/info/threefold/#/technology/threefold__tfgrid_primitives)