Why is it better?

Cloud computing is a big shift from the traditional way of using IT resources and services. Here are seven common reasons organizations are turning to cloud computing services:

Cost Speed Global Scale Productivity Reliability Performance Security

Let's understand it through an example,

Consider you are a developer and you have finished developing your software, now you think the difficult part is over or is it, now you have to just launch your application over a wide range of customers, provide continuous delivery, manage databases, examine the analytics,strengthen your security,improve performance, productivity and when the demand increases, increase your computing power.

In a traditional way, you would have bought or rent a server, hire different professional experts to, manage servers, databases, analytics, security, spend a lot of money on infrastructure, new hardware when the demand increases and so many other expenses,

this is where cloud computing comes in, with cloud computing ,you can do all of that and more and with the option of pay as you go meaning you have to pay for the services that you want, cloud computing offers elastic instances, storage, databases, all of which can be increased just with a mouse click that is why its flexible, there is no hardware cost, you don't have to hire people to manage anything ,its so simple you can do and that too from anywhere in the world, they provide real-time analytics, free security against attacks, testing and almost 100% reliability meaning your application is always live and backups to quickly restore the services in any case of mishap,these were the few examples of how cloud computing makes deploying your application so much easier and cost-efficient ,it doesn't matter which cloud service you are using ,the cost is always less than traditional means.

Also depending on your requirements, several model types and services have evolved to provide a solution. There are three different ways to deploy cloud services: on a public cloud, private cloud or hybrid cloud.

Now, most cloud computing services fall into four broad categories: infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), serverless and software as a service (SaaS). These are sometimes called the cloud computing stack because they build on top of one another. Knowing what they are and how they are different makes it easier to accomplish your business goals.

But we will not get into that just yet.