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Cloud Basics

One can benefit from cloud computing, be it a developer, a business or a service consumer. The benefits I mention here are not restricted to a certain cloud provider but general benefits one gets from each cloud. It's normally up to the business to access which cloud provider offers these benefits and even more in a way that they are pleased with, meets their business requirements and can they use. 

Peace of mind: allow your team to work with little to no intervention from you as you can give them the resources they need at any point in time.

Delivery speed: it increases your speed of delivery as you do away with delays stemming from a lack of resources on premises.

Flexible payment model: pay for only the resources you use.

Cost management: get access to billing dashboards with insights to your cloud spendings.

Save time waiting for resources to be ready for use as you can deploy resources any time you need and destroy when done.

Prototyping becomes easy: with a virtual machine and the plethora of services offered by cloud providers, it's easier to move from just diagrams on paper to testing out solutions in minutes.

Service delivery speed: with cloud computing, you can make your services available to customers with reduced latency by building your service in multiple cloud provider regions.

Service reliability: with reduced latency and an increase in deployment speeds, you can make the service much more reliable for your users.

Improved security: the cloud offers a whole host of networking and security solutions at your fingertips that you can use to safe guard your service consumers, assuring them of the security of your services.

Cloud computing offers peace of mind to employers, saves time from product draft to prototyping and provides your end users confidence on the reliability of your service.

Benefits of cloud computing