Azure Tutorials Series - Benefits of cloud computing

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Now we know what is cloud and why do we use them as already covered in the previous article. We would learn new terminologies in this article related to the cloud.

Benefits of Cloud Computing

Cloud services provides a lot of benefits to its consumers. As an IT consultant you spend a lot of time on the software portal of it instead of going into the hardware. The companies which still uses legacy mainframe systems cannot move to the cloud thinking overnight, I mean the transition needs to be gradual here which is often termed as 'lift and shift'.

Now let's see what are the benefits of cloud computing!

Cost effective
  • Provides Pay-as-you-go or consumption based pricing model.
  • No upfront infrastructure cost
  • Ability to scale up or scale in when needed
  • Usage of Artificial intelligence tools to predict future estimate.
Scalable
  • Ability to increase or decrease the resources or Services based upon workload at any given time
  • 2 terms are related here
    • Scaling up - also called vertical scaling which is the ability to add more resources as per the workload, for example, adding more CPUs or RAMs
    • Scaling out - also called horizontal scaling which is the ability to add more machines or VMs that functions together as one unit.
  • Scaling can be done either manually or automatically, as triggering a utilisation limit.
Elastic
  • Based upon current demand cloud computing system can automatically add or remove resources.
  • Can be customised in such a way that traffic is handled well in peak hours and then can be saturated in terms of cost as well.
Fault Tolerance
  • Let's say if any of the component gets failed, a backup component is ready to takes it place with minimal impact on the service, the term is referred as 'Fault Tolerance', it is carried out using replication of the resources.
Global
  • Selecting the location of the resource or service near to your customers.
  • Geographical presence of the data centres for response time coverage.
Physically and Digitally secure
  • Azure resources or services are well secured physically as well as digitally, none of the employees are allowed to access any of the machines allotted to its customers unless given permission to do so.
  • Data centres are well equipped with security camera and security personnel

Well that covers most of it! 

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