Very important: you absolutely don't have to switch to or configure any cloud provider. However, it is a very healthy thing to understand the "behind the scene

Very important: you absolutely don't have to switch to or configure any cloud provider. However, it is a very healthy thing to understand the "behind the scenes" in case you need to interoperate with existing APIs or databases[1] [1] https://zeit.co/docs/v2/platform/regions-and-providers https://zeit.co/docs/v2/platform/regions-and-providers