One of the most compelling benefits of the cloud is the favorable financial savings by not investing in and maintaining legacy infrastructure, such as hardware and networking equipment, data servers, and other typical physical IT needs. The cloud is consumed as a service, for instance, server-intensive apps like email services. Instead of having on-prem email servers, SMBs can leverage cloud email services with its associated benefits.
A cloud service lets you choose a subscription model that fits your business needs, with the costs being proportional to the services and storage space used. Consequently, SMBs can develop affordable solutions without having large IT teams to build and deploy apps or deal with the logistics and security of the applications.