Someone asked me the other day what is Cloud Computing? I told the person that asked the question that clouds computing is the on-demand delivery of computing power, database storage, file storage, applications, and other IT resources through a cloud services platform offered by Google, AWS, Microsoft, IBM, and other providers and the cloud platform is delivered via the internet with a pay-as-you-go pricing.
Advantages and Benefits of Cloud Computing
- Replace capital expenses for variable expense
- Stop guessing what capacity is required
- Scaling speed and agility
- No more spending money on running and maintaining data centers
- Benefit from massive economies of scale
- Time to market launching global in minutes
- Innovate the business in minutes
Deployment Models
All the cloud platform providers offer a range of deployment models, from all on-premises to fully deployed in the cloud. Many customers begin with a new project in the cloud, and they might integrate some on-premises applications with these new projects in a hybrid architecture. They might decide to keep some legacy systems on-premises. Over time, they might migrate more and more of their infrastructure to the cloud, and they might eventually reach an all-in-the-cloud deployment.
Products and Services
All the major cloud providers offer a broad set of global cloud-based products, including compute, storage, databases, analytics, networking, mobile, developer tools, management tools, Internet of Things (IoT), security, and enterprise applications.
Get Started Today
What are you waiting for get started today to innovate, many of the major cloud providers offer a Free tier do not be afraid to get started. It’s up to you which cloud provider you want to go with.
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