Azure Tutorials series - Cloud Basics

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We have already started with Azure tutorials in our blog, before we dive deep into Azure, let's understand few cloud concepts to familiarise our readers and boost some confidence.

What is a Cloud?

Delivery of computing services over the internet using pay-as-you-go model. In other words, to rent computer power and storage to others. As the term pay-as-you-go goes, it's like to pay for the services for the duration of time you use them. The biggest advantage of using cloud is that you don't need to work about infrastructure cost like RAM or CPUs or data centres, you get this service from different service provider such as Google, Microsoft or Amazon. And believe me the services are really worth it, it saves you a lot of upfront cost and boosts your business. 

Why move to the cloud?

In fast paced modern world, every big service provider companies are competing with each other in delivering the solution to their customers. The most important factor being the speed here. So using the cloud services can help your business run effectively and could be delightful for your customers as well. I mean to say customers or business users doesn't really need to know the technical details but must enjoy the 100% uptime or availability of the content. It's up to you whether you want to stick to old traditional legacy or innovate with the new digital technologies.

We moved from waterfall model to agile methodology to Devops where we build and deploy applications faster. With the help of cloud, it could mitigate the pain areas as well as the upfront infrastructure cost.

That was the basic idea and business why one should know and use cloud services, we wish to bring more and more articles to understand how to configure it to our businesses.

Happy Learning and happy Sharing!


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