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Published inDec 2023
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Abirami Sukumaran
Abirami Sukumaran
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Abirami Sukumaran

Abirami Sukumaran is a lead developer advocate at Google, focusing on databases and data to AI journey with Google Cloud. She has over 17 years of experience in data management, data governance, and analytics across several industries in various roles from engineering to leadership, and has 3 patents filed in the data area. She believes in driving social and business impact with technology. She is also an international keynote, tech panel, and motivational speaker, including key events like Google I/O, Cloud NEXT, MLDS, GDS, Huddle Global, India Startup Festival, Women Developers Academy, and so on. She founded Code Vipassana, an award-winning, non-profit, tech-enablement program powered by Google and she runs with the support of Google Developer Communities GDG Cloud Kochi, Chennai, Mumbai, and a few developer leads. She is pursuing her doctoral research in business administration with artificial intelligence, is a certified Yoga instructor, practitioner, and an Indian above everything else.
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The benefits of cloud computing

There are numerous benefits to cloud computing. Let’s look at a few of the most important ones to our topic:

  • Ease of use: The programs and applications (in the case of SaaS) are exclusively managed by vendors, and you do not need to worry about how to run an application.
  • Customization: Even updates to existing applications have become easy, with SaaS involving a point-and-click method and no need to change code extensively.
  • Pay-as-you-go: You pay only for what you use and can terminate or pause services at any time.
  • Avoiding the cost of infrastructure: Build and deploy applications without worrying about the cost of compute and other resources, such as servers, operating systems, and networks.
  • Pay only for what you need: You choose what you want to use and pay only for those features and services, depending on the service, and you do not have to be concerned about paying for anything else.
  • Upgrades and updates: You...
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Abirami Sukumaran

Abirami Sukumaran is a lead developer advocate at Google, focusing on databases and data to AI journey with Google Cloud. She has over 17 years of experience in data management, data governance, and analytics across several industries in various roles from engineering to leadership, and has 3 patents filed in the data area. She believes in driving social and business impact with technology. She is also an international keynote, tech panel, and motivational speaker, including key events like Google I/O, Cloud NEXT, MLDS, GDS, Huddle Global, India Startup Festival, Women Developers Academy, and so on. She founded Code Vipassana, an award-winning, non-profit, tech-enablement program powered by Google and she runs with the support of Google Developer Communities GDG Cloud Kochi, Chennai, Mumbai, and a few developer leads. She is pursuing her doctoral research in business administration with artificial intelligence, is a certified Yoga instructor, practitioner, and an Indian above everything else.
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