What is cloud computing?

Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of system resources like computing power (virtual machines, container runtime), storage (file storage, object storage, SQL/NoSQL databases), network services and applications.

Those resources can be delivered by public cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform or in private clouds maintained by our customers using products like Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift or OpenStack.

Main benefits of cloud computing

• Shorter time to market. You can build a production-ready environment in minutes. Use ready-made Software as a Service application for repetitive tasks in your systems and focus on building specific business logic.
• Reliability. It’s easier to build highly scalable solutions, replicate data to different data centers and serve it to users in every place in the world thanks to cloud provider global infrastructure.
• Increased agility. Experiment more. Trying new solutions has a low entry threshold. You can start using Big Data, Machine Learning, IoT etc. without building expensive infrastructure in your data center. You have made a Proof of Concept, and it’s not for you? Shut down everything, stop paying for resources and experiment with the next solution.
• Cost optimization. Stop spending money on running and maintaining data centers. You will pay only for what you use and avoid overprovisioning.