How Cloud Computing bridges the divide between developed and developing nations?
Piyush Porwal
Tech Enthusiast & Learner| Engineering Manager at Microsoft | Career Growth Mentor | Architect | Sharing Food For Thoughts
Cloud Computing is the Noah’s ark of modern technology.?
Most apps commonly in use today rely on Cloud Computing to reduce costs, improve scalability and agility and standardize security. It wouldn’t be wrong to say that the foundation sustaining world consumption today is scalability and standardization provided by Cloud Computing.
However, most people overlooked to the fact that Cloud Computing is a big contributing factor to bridge the divide between technology developed and developing nations and elevate the lifestyle of people by improving accessibility of resources. Cloud Computing:
Real World Use Cases?we have seen in India
UPI - Hosted on AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM Cloud and Oracle Cloud and crossed more than 8.9 billion total transactions as of 2023
Digilocker - Hosted on AWS. Over 100 million registered users and over 1 billion documents stored on the platform.
Online Tax Filing - Ease of tax paying due to online tax filing portal on cloud. The portal has over 100 million registered users and over 200 million returns filed annually.
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2.???????????The Indian Content Story - enabling common citizens to create content
Video hosting applications like YouTube, Instagram etc. are possible due to the scalability and agility of Cloud Computing. Cloud computing has truly led the democratization of content in India and the rest of the world.
3.???????????Increasing competition in India for IAS, JEE, NEET etc
Online education through cloud computing has changed the dynamics of education, by enabling a business model where the teacher can charge much less and earn a lot more through hundreds of thousands of students getting direct benefit of the superior teaching. This has given the students of rural areas to study for exams at a fraction of a cost and added immense value to their lives.
4.???????????Enabling the rise of online businesses
Hosting solutions like Hostinger have made blogging and business website development absurdly easy and cost effective. Also, cloud-based solutions like Shopify have enabled thousands of small and medium business owners to take their business online and increase sales.
In 20+ years of history, this technology has indeed emerged as a game-changer for developing nations, revolutionizing their technological landscape and unlocking immense potential.