There are six key benefits of cloud computing:
- Financial Benefits:
- No upfront cost. You pay per use rather than putting up a large investment in hardware and expertise upfront.
- There are many solutions and pricing plans. If chosen prudently with your needs, it would be more cost effective than on-premise over the long term.
- No need to spend money on maintaining hardware infrastructure
- Unlimited Resources:
- You can procure as much computing power and storage as you need in minutes.
- Scaleability:
- You can scale your infrastructure up or down based on your requirements, also within minutes. Scaling up refers to adding more capacity. Scaling down refers to reducing capacity.
- No need to build for peak:
- In an on-premise environment, you have to procure and setup infrastructure to handle the peak hours. On the cloud, you don’t need to procure for the peak. Your cloud provider can automatically scale up or down your virtual infrastructure based on your demands.
- Increase speed and agility:
- Setup your infrastructure in minutes, with a few clicks.
- Get access to best infrastructure in the world
- Once you are on the cloud, you will have access to the same infrastructure as Netflix and Facebook.