Introduction to Cloud Computing
Explore the fundamentals of cloud computing, including its types, benefits such as scalability, reliability, and remote accessibility. Understand key concepts like scaling up and out, continuous delivery, and the impact on startups. Learn about potential drawbacks including security risks, cost considerations, and dependency on service providers to better prepare for a career in cloud engineering.
Overview
Now that the concept of the cloud is clearer, we can say that cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computing services on the cloud. This helps businesses worry less about the logistics required to maintain physical servers and focus on their core business operations.
Benefits
Apart from this, moving all computing to the cloud comes with more benefits as follows:
Reliability
Data and other essential resources on the cloud are backed up and can be recovered by the cloud providers if an incident occurs.
Scaling
With the cloud, it’s easier to scale up or scale out depending on our business requirements without directly thinking about the background work needed to make that possible. Scaling up or out means managing the capacity of the system ...