Cloud Concept[Basic]: What is cloud computing?

Cloud Computing is the on-demand delivery of IT assets over the Internet with pay-as-you-go pricing. Instead of owning, buying, and maintaining physical data centers and servers, you can access technology services, such as compute power, storage, and databases, as per the need from a cloud provider like Oracle Cloud Amazon Web Services (AWS) , Microsoft Azure , or Google Cloud rather than relying on their private infrastructure.

How Does It Overcome the Problems of Traditional Architecture?

• Lower IT costs: The cloud helps you to offload some or most of the costs and effort of purchasing, installing, configuring, and managing your own on-premises infrastructure.
• Improve agility and time-to-value:?With the help of the cloud, your organization can start using enterprise applications within a minute, instead of waiting weeks or months for IT to respond to a request, purchase and configure supporting hardware, and install the software. The cloud also lets you empower certain users, specifically developers and data scientists, to help themselves with software and support the infrastructure.
• Scale more easily & cost-effectively: As the cloud provides elasticity, instead of purchasing the excess capacity that sits vacant when it is no longer required, you can scale capacity up or down in response to spikes and dips in traffic.

What is Traditional Architecture?

A traditional IT infrastructure is made up of standard hardware resources and software components: facilities, data centers, servers, networking hardware computers, and enterprise application software solutions.

What are the challenges associated with traditional data centers?

Some of the common challenges that almost every organizations are facing like

• Whether organization has to pay the rent for DC or own a DC
• Pay for power supply, cooling, maintenance etc.
• Expanding and replacing hardware usually takes time.
• Scaling is limited or may arise complexity.
• Required 24/7 team to monitor the infrastructure and the DC.
• Deal with earthquake, power shutdown, fire are costly.

To be continued... Stay tune!