Despite the fact that cloud infrastructures may have certain limitations, there is an uncountable number of advantages, including:
Great resource scalability, which means you can scale your resources up and down on demand and enjoy the autoscaling features. Autoscaling will help to get prepared for unexpected traffic spikes and decrease the downtimes ratio.
Cloud enables smart infrastructure automation and becomes a single source of truth for an environment.
“Pay-as-you-go” billing model ensures you pay only for the resources you use. There is no need to forecast the load and buy the resources upfront.
Infrastructure hosted in the cloud enables you to use modern technologies and trending open-source tools. Such infrastructure is fully compatible with numerous ready-made tools and which can be easily integrated into your operations.
Cloud computing lets you reimagine and transform the approach to product delivery. It allows your IT stuff shift focus from infrastructure maintenance to product updates and new features release.
Risk management becomes as easy as never before because of smart monitoring and alerting capabilities that ensure your services are always up.