Eliminate guessing on your infrastructure capacity needs. When you make a capacity decision
prior to deploying an application, you often end up either sitting on expensive idle
resources or dealing with limited capacity. With cloud computing, these problems go away.
You can access as much or as little capacity as you need, and scale up and down as required
with only a few minutes’ notice
In a cloud computing environment, new IT resources are only a click away, which means that
you reduce the time to make those resources available to your developers from weeks to just
minutes. This results in a dramatic increase in agility for the organization, since the cost
and time it takes to experiment and develop is significantly lower
Cloud is based on an operational expenditure (OPEX) model, not a capital expenditure (CAPEX)
model
Cloud does not provide the ability to depreciate assets over a longer timeframe as you
generally do not own the assets
Though the AWS cloud does provide significant security standards for the data center, you do
not get more control as this is an AWS responsibility