The advantages of the cloud
Cloud computing provides on-demand delivery of IT resources such as servers, networks, storage, databases, and all higher-level application services via the internet with a pay-as-you-go pricing model. The prominent vendors for the cloud are Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, and they all provide usage-based pricing.
The cloud has many benefits, but the top three are agility, innovation, and cost savings. Let’s take a brief look at all three.
Agility ensures that the teams can experiment with new ideas quickly and frequently. That’s because the speed your team can deliver software is higher when the team doesn’t wait for IT to provision infrastructure. This makes the foundation of autonomous product teams, where they can release products, collect feedback, and improve the software to meet your customers’ needs.
Agility powers your team to focus on business competence instead of using the time...