Top 11 Advantages of Cloud Computing in 2023
We are in 2023 and most of us are using cloud computing in our day-to-day life. Think of Banking, Shopping, Social Media or Working from Home during the pandemic time, cloud computing is used in all these places.
Have you ever thought why there is so much fuss about the cloud? Why everyone wants to go the cloud way?
Well, in this post we will walk you through some of the advantages of cloud computing. It will help you answer the question of why cloud?
first of all, let’s understand cloud computing.
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What is Cloud Computing?
In simple terms, cloud computing is the availability of computing resources such as storage, servers, databases, software applications etc. over the internet.
- As cloud services provide pay as you go model, you only pay for the services that you use and nothing else.
- It helps in lowering overall operational costs by cutting the need of procuring all the required infrastructure in advance.
- You can store as less data as you want and as much data as you want without worrying about the disk size.
By the way, if you are a beginner to the cloud, feel free to check out our previous post on basics of cloud computing.
“Businesses from small to large scale are moving to cloud And why not? They have lots of valid reasons to do so.”
Let’s learn why cloud computing is so popular among businesses of all shapes and sizes.
Advantages of Cloud Computing:
Here are some of the most prominent advantages of cloud computing you should know-
1. Cost Saving
Cost saving is the most important reason people want to move to the cloud.
Suppose, If your company wants to set up a data centre, It has to invest in hardware and software. Then they need to hire skilled people to manage the infrastructure.
Even when the data centre is set up, 24/7 electricity, cooling and other maintenance process need to be done for successful operation. It can easily add up to the cost, which small businesses can’t afford to invest.
Moving into the cloud does not require any upfront investment. Most of the time we only need to pay for what we use. We no more pay for wasted resources which otherwise will happen in the case of an on-premises data centre.
2. Flexibility
Cloud computing is very much flexible when it comes to provisioning resources such as memory, computing capacity etc.
You can start small and grow your infrastructure gradually as the business grows.
Cloud computing assures us, no matter how big our business grows. We always will be ready to serve the load.
As soon as the load is lowered, capacity is reduced as well to lower the cost.
3. 24/7 Availability
High availability means, your application should be responsive around the clock. Even if some failure happens or some natural disaster hits, highly available systems should be able to serve requests.
When it comes to availability, most of the cloud service providers are reliable to use. In fact, many of them provide 99.99% uptime.
4. Reliability
Cloud computing makes disaster recovery easier than ever. In the cloud, multiple copies of our data are stored in different locations/availability zones.
So, even if one of them crashes or some natural disaster happens at the location. Data is safe as it can be recovered from other locations.
5. Scalability
Scalability is nothing but the ability to increase or decrease the storage, CPU etc. when required.
One of the capabilities that the cloud provided us is infinite scalability. Be it storage or compute or others, you can scale as much as you need and as less as your system needs.
That means It not only scales rather is more efficient as well because you can reduce the capacity when not in use. Which you can’t do with an on-premises data centre.
6. High Performance
Cloud computing services run on a network of data centres. Those data centres have powerful hardware and software. Also, they are always upgraded to the latest, fast and efficient hardware, which in turn provides high performance.
7. Security
Nowadays many cloud providers provide us with a set of policies and advanced techniques to strengthen our overall security. Which in turn helps us defend ourselves from a wide range of cyber-attacks.
Although, security in the cloud is a shared responsibility. This means cloud service providers are responsible for the security of the cloud(infrastructure) and clients are responsible for security in the cloud(For their application)
However, service providers provide us with ways to tightly secure our application.
8. Unlimited Storage
Nowadays data is increasing at a really super fast pace. Companies have terabytes or exabytes of data. They want a place to store these huge data at low cost flexibly or as the requirement grows
One of the advantages of cloud computing is that you can store as much data as you want. You need not worry about disk size at all.
It’s like storing in a disk of infinite size. Now that’s cool !!! right?
9. Easy Backup and Restore
Gone are the day’s when we would store our pictures on laptops, hard disks and others. Now a day’s our phones are synced with the cloud(for example- Google Photos) to store our photos, contacts and others.
Even when you change your phone, Just configure your email and you should be able to restore your mail, contacts, photos etc. Isn’t it easier than copying the data to some hard disk and recovering it back?
Well, that’s the power of cloud computing. It makes backup restore an easy breezy job.
10. Highly Accessible
Imagine if you have your photo stored on your laptop or phone. you can only access it from that laptop or phone. However, if you have your photos stored in google photos, you can access your photo from anywhere in the world from any computer system.
In short, storing data in the cloud makes it a breezy process to access that data from anywhere in the world on any computer in the same way.
Simply If I say, cloud computing gives us the capability to have our data at the reach of our fingertips.
11. Automatic Software Update
Nothing is more annoying than installing software updates when you have got more important things to do.
When using the cloud, you or the IT department at your office is no more responsible for making software updates at regular intervals.
Your cloud service providers will take care of that.
Conclusion:
Cloud computing has literally changed the way we live our life. It provides ease of use to users like us.
At the same time, It helps organizations of any shape and size grow their business without worrying about their infrastructure.
And that’s the reason companies are moving to the cloud at a really really fast pace than ever to survive in this highly competitive world.
Lately, Serverless Computing has literally brought a storm into the cloud computing world. Where all you need to worry about is your code and the rest is taken care of by your cloud providers.
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