
Cloud computing is the on-demand distribution of IT services and pay-as-you-go pricing over the Internet. Instead of purchasing, owning, and maintaining physical data centers and servers, a cloud provider such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) can access technology resources, such as computing power, storage, and databases, as required.
Organizations are using the cloud for various purposes, such as data storage & recovery, disaster recovery, email, virtual desktops, software development and testing, big data analytics, and customer-facing web applications. For example, game maker use cloud for deliver online games to players around the world, health care companies use cloud to develop more personalized treatments for patients, Financial companies use cloud to power real-time fraud detection and prevention.
Agility
The cloud allows you easy access to a wide variety of technology, so you can innovate more easily and develop almost anything you can imagine. You can transform resources rapidly if you need them – from infrastructure services such as compute, storage, and databases, to the Internet of Things, machine learning, data lakes, and analytics, and more.
Cost Saving
The cloud allows you to trade capital expenses (such as data centers and physical servers) for variable expenses, and only pay for what you use with no long-term contracts or up-front commitments.
Elasticity
AWS lets you to select the operating system, programming language, framework for web applications, database, and other resources you need. With AWS you obtain a virtual environment that allows you to load the software and services needed by your application.
Globally in a minutes
You can extend to new geographic regions with the cloud and deploy globally in minutes. For instance, AWS has infrastructure all over the world so with just a few clicks you can deploy your application in multiple physical locations. Putting apps closer to end users decreases latency and enhances the experience.
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