Cloud computing continues to disrupt the traditional world of IT and transform the way companies of all verticals and sizes are doing business. Cloud services are no longer the future of IT, but the reality. Moving to the cloud provides companies with more agility, elasticity, cost savings and the ability to expand their business footprint and to develop a global reach to customers. Top level executives continue to recognize and accept the benefits of the cloud.
Whether you are running applications that share photos to millions of mobile users or you’re supporting the critical operations of your business, a cloud services platform provides rapid access to flexible and low cost IT resources. With cloud computing, you don’t need to make large upfront investments in hardware and spend a lot of time on the heavy lifting of managing that hardware. Instead, you can provision exactly the right type and size of computing resources you need to power your newest bright idea or operate your IT department. You can access as many resources as you need, almost instantly, and only pay for what you use.
Cloud computing provides a simple way to access servers, storage, databases and a broad set of application services over the Internet. A Cloud services platform such as Amazon Web Services owns and maintains the network-connected hardware required for these application services, while you provision and use what you need via a web application.