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Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of computing services which includes servers, data storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence.

In cloud computing customer will have to pay only for the services he/she uses. As business change customer can scale their application based on their business requirements.

Benefits of cloud computing

Cost

By using cloud computing services, we can eliminate the expenses of purchasing the software and hardware resources that are used in the data centers. The entire infrastructure operations such as electricity, power, cooling, round-the-clock operations, server scaling, etc are done for us by the cloud provider.

Speed

Cloud computing providers are very fast at delivering services and are mostly self-service. A lot of things are done within minutes including the creation of servers, managing databases, etc, this enables businesses flexibility and on-time service delivery to clients.

Security

Cloud computing provides best security practices that include policies, and technologies that strengthen the security of the applications or software's that are hosted on the cloud. This reduces the risk of exposure to potential threats.

Uses of cloud computing

  1. Creating cloud-native applications
  2. Testing and building applications
  3. Storing and backing up data
  4. Data Analysis
  5. Audio and video streaming services

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