From the Server Room to the Cloud: Why Businesses Should Adopt Cloud Architecture

The old habit of turning an office room into a "systems room" and filling it with noisy servers that need constant cooling and give you headaches during power cuts is over. Today the world hosts its data and applications in the cloud. So why is moving to platforms such as AWS (Amazon), Azure (Microsoft) or Google Cloud an inevitable step for SMBs and large enterprises alike? 1. Cost Efficiency: Pay for What You Use When you buy physical servers, you size RAM and CPU for the busiest day you can imagine. For the rest of the year perhaps 80% of that capacity sits idle, yet you have already paid for it. In the cloud you pay only for the resources you consume. You can shut servers down overnight and save. 2. Scalability You run a campaign on your e-commerce site and traffic suddenly jumps tenfold. Your physical server crashes. Cloud architecture detects that load and, within seconds, spins up new servers automatically (auto-scaling) to keep the system running. When demand drops, those servers shut down. "Cloud computing is like electricity. You pay for what you draw from the socket; you do not need to build your own power station." 3. Disaster Recovery Your office floods, catches fire …