Businesses are interested in moving to the cloud for a number of reasons. Perhaps the most common is the fact that public clouds afford businesses a tremendous amount of external, remote resources at a remarkably lower cost than it would take to implement physical infrastructure of the same scope. Connecting to the public cloud can technically be done in an instant, while physical implementation of the same amount of computing power would require planning, ordering equipment, receiving the order, unpacking it, setting up by the IT team, and then ongoing maintenance.
In the same sense, many operations are choosing to shift their infrastructure away from their current physical setup and into the cloud, cutting the costs of owning and maintaining physical servers and other hardware and, at the same time, increasing their virtual bandwidth.
Service providers specializing in cloud migration understand the ins and outs of such a monumental shift and know how to leverage migration tools to help businesses migrate to cloud computing. They know the difference between the platforms and can, in the process, distinguish between the cloud migration steps involved in AWS cloud migration vs. Azure cloud migration, for example.
Here are a few more benefits of public cloud migration:
Pay only for the services you actually use. No overpaying for services you may or may not use.
Their job is to make sure you are up and running at all times and satisfied with the solution you have employed. Plus, you no longer have to wait for IT to arrive on site.
Providers can potentially create a practically infinite amount of computing power for your business, if necessary, meaning you will never be limited by your resources and that you can quickly scale up or down as needed.
The cloud offers comprehensive APIs to allow for easy integration, connectability and functionality. This makes the process of connecting and integrating complementary software simpler.
Take advantage of the capabilities of the cloud to win in the marketplace with better, more efficient workflows and the improved ability for your teams to innovate, collaborate and adapt.
- Resilience and reliability, no matter what
With your business on the cloud, the information is backed up and safely kept, no matter what happens to your physical systems.
Not everything about the public cloud is perfect. The two major disadvantages are security and lack of customizability. In essence, the public cloud is shared tenancy, which means multiple entities are sharing access to public servers. While this was a problem at the advent of public cloud technology, this issue has been addressed as the cloud has evolved over time, and nowadays there are very strict ISO standards subject to frequent security audits. For businesses that need the strictest security standards private clouds are ideal. Public clouds are subject to third-party capabilities, which refers to the lack of customizability that would be present in a private cloud configuration.
