Cloud Computing has revolutionized how businesses operate today. The cloud has made it easier to develop, deploy and distribute applications and data to millions of people across the world. Today, many billion dollar businesses rely on the cloud to deliver their day-to-day results including Uber, Netflix and AirAsia. Businesses are moving away from On-Premise, is there a good reason to move?
Cloud Computing has revolutionized how businesses operate today. The cloud has made it easier to develop, deploy and distribute applications and data to millions of people across the world. Today, many billion dollar businesses rely on the cloud to deliver their day-to-day results including Uber, Netflix and AirAsia. Businesses are moving away from On-Premise, is there a good reason to move?
Companies spend large amounts of money on digitising their business. Most often, this comes in the form of software or web-systems which needs to be hosted on a server accessible to the World Wide Web so that users can consume its services. Perhaps you are a budding startup building an industry leading app, but where do you host your app? Traditionally, this meant investing in servers, skilled personnel and robust security systems to house the infrastructure On-Premise but the times are changing.
The cloud has become a home for many companies, big or small, to deploy their computing workloads. Cloud Service Providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) , Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure have been steadily growing over the many years and a huge percentage of the internet now flows through its datacentres located across the globe.
What is the benefit of moving to the cloud?
Cloud is about how you do computing, not where you do computing
~ Paul Maritz, CEO of VMWare
7 Benefits of Moving to The Cloud
Lower Capex Cost
On-Premise servers require initial investment in buying hardware, building adequate ventilation, providing electricity, hiring qualified personnel and securing the premise. In contrast, the cloud requires 0 upfront cost. In fact, most cloud providers even have a monthly Free Tier to try out their services so you pay nothing within a certain usage bracket. Google Cloud also gives USD300 credits for 3 months to try their services before you commit.
Pay Only For What You Use
Provisioning resources on the cloud is as easy as clicking a button. Paying for those provisioned resources tends to be based on the amount of time consumed using that resource. For example, Google Cloud bills Compute Engine usage to the second, so you genuinely only pay for what you use. Other services such as the Firestore database is charged based on the amount of reads and writes. You do not pay any charge to run or manage the services or even for the electricity. Amazing?
Global Availability
Google Cloud has datacenters across the world, so you can deploy your workloads to datacenters closest to your user base for low latency connections. Cloud service providers keep investing in their networks to continue to add more regions and zones every month. Read more here.
Secure Infrastructure
Security is most important when dealing with sensitive data. This is an aspect that has less risk when working on the cloud. Google provides up to 6 layers of security for their data centers. Data is encrypted at rest so it is only available to you not even to Google employees. Google manages most of the work, but shares the responsibility with its customers who must ensure best practice design and safe storage of sensitive credentials.
Amazing Scalability
What is key to running a successful app? Speed and reliability.
In today's fast-paced world, an app can go from 1 user to millions of users in a couple of days. It is important to design a scalable architecture that can keep up with your usage needs. The cloud enables provisioning of resources at a moments notice with servers ranging from small CPUs to large number of CPUs or RAM so that you are ready for any surge in traffic.
Access to Industry Leading Tools.
Google Cloud provides many of their own internal tools that run GMail, Google Maps, Google Search and others as a service to you. Train your Deep Learning models on the same infrastructure used to serve production grade services across the Google ecosystem. Use their Big Data systems that powers their own tools.
Focus on what matters: The Code
In conclusion, all of the points above lead to this final point. The cloud was built so you can focus on what matters, delivering world class solutions for your end users. Spend less time managing hardware and infrastructure. Spend more time working on code that generates the most value.
Moving to the Cloud?
The move to the cloud can be a daunting experience. We at BerjutaTech are ready to help you on this journey. Our skilled Google Cloud Certified Professional Architects and Data Engineers can provide detailed advise on architecting the solution for your businesses.
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