Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of IT resources over the Internet with a pay-as-you-go pricing model.
Instead of buying, owning, and maintaining physical data centres and servers, you can access technology services, such as computing power, storage, and databases, on an as-needed basis from a cloud provider like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, or Microsoft Azure.
Who is using cloud computing?
Organisations of every type, size, and industry are using the cloud for a wide variety of use cases, such as data backup, disaster recovery, email, virtual desktops, software development and testing, big data analytics, and customer-facing web applications.
Benefits of cloud computing
- Agility: The cloud gives you easy access to a broad range of technologies so that you can innovate faster and build nearly anything that you can imagine. You can quickly spin up resources as you need them from infrastructure services, storage, and databases, to the Internet of Things, machine learning, analytics, and much more.
- Elasticity: With cloud computing, you don’t have to over-provision resources upfront to handle peak levels of business activity in the future. Instead, you provision the amount of resources that you actually need. You can scale these resources up or down to instantly grow and shrink capacity as your business needs change.
- Cost Effective: The cloud allows you to replace expensive assets such as data centres and physical servers for variable expenses, and only pay for IT as you consume it. Plus, the variable expenses are much lower than what you would pay to do it yourself because of the economies of scale.
- Global Deployment: With the cloud, you can expand to new geographic regions and deploy globally in minutes. With many cloud providers offering infrastructure all over the world, you can deploy your application in multiple physical locations with just a few clicks putting you in closer proximity to end users and improving their user experience.
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