Nowadays, it is clear that cloud computing has revolutionized how technology is obtained, used and managed. And all of this has changed how organizations budget and pay for technology services.

Cloud Computing has given us the ability to reconfigure quickly our environments to be able to adapt them to changing business requirements. We can run cost effective services that can scale up and down depending on usage or business demands and, all of this, using pay-per-use billing. Making unnecessary huge upfront infrastructure expenses for enterprises, and balancing the possibilities between been a big enterprise or a new one.

There are multiple and diverse advantages, and most of them depend on the enterprises, the business and the needs they have. But, there are six of them that tend to appear in every case:

Variable vs. Capital Expense

Instead of having to invest in data centers and servers before knowing how they are going to be used, they can be paid when you consume computing resources and paid only for how much you consume.

Economies of Scale

By, using cloud computing, we can achieve a lower variable costs that we would get on our own. Cloud providers like AWS can aggregate hundred of thousands of customers in the cloud, achieving higher economies of scale, which translates in lower prices.

Stop Guessing Capacity

When we make a capacity decision prior to deploying an application, we usually end up either setting expensive idle resources or dealing with limited capacity. With cloud computing there is no more need for guessing. The cloud allow us to access as much or as little as we need to cover our business needs and to scale up or down as required without advanced planning, with in minutes.

Increase Speed and Agility

Deploy new resources to cover new business cases or implementation of prototypes and POCs to experiment now can be achieved with a few clicks provisioning new resources in a simple, easy and fast way usually reducing costs and time and allowing companies to adapt or explore.

Focus on Business Differentiators

Cloud computing allows enterprises to focus on their business priorities, instead of on the heavy lifting of racking, stacking, and powering servers. This allows enterprises to focus on projects that differentiate their businesses.

Go Global in Minutes

With cloud computing enterprises can easily deploy their applications to multiple locations around the world. This allows to provide redundancy and lower latencies. This is not any more reserved just for the largest enterprises. Cloud computing has democratized this ability