Introduction to Cloud Computing

You can pay only when you consume computing resources, and pay only for how much you consume.

By aggregating usage from hundreds of thousands of customers, cloud providers can achieve lower variable costs.

Eliminate guessing on infrastructure capacity needs, which often leads to sitting on expensive idle resources or dealing with limited capacity.

<p>New IT resources are only a click away, reducing the time to make resources available from weeks to just minutes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It allows for providing lower latency and a better experience for customers at minimal cost.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of compute power, database, storage, applications, and other IT resources through a cloud services platform via the Internet with pay-as-you-go pricing.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cloud computing eliminates the need for large upfront investments in hardware and reduces the heavy lifting of managing that hardware. It provides rapid access to flexible and low-cost IT resources.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Pay-as-you-go pricing means that users only pay for the computing resources they use, without the need for large upfront investments in hardware.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cloud computing provides a simple way to access servers, storage, databases, and a broad set of application services over the Internet.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A cloud services platform owns and maintains the network-connected hardware required for application services, while users provision and use the resources they need via a web application.</p> Signup and view all the answers