What is Cloud Computing and benefits of cloud computing ?

This is the basic introduction for the cloud computing and what are the major benefits which currently IT organization is taking from the cloud.

What is cloud computing?

It is the on-demand availability of computer resources, majorly computing power and storage. By this method a person can use resources in other’s data center for hosting thier application which helps to generate a revenue from the unused resources in data centers & person can host their application on rented resources. It is a Win-Win situation for both!

Benefits of Cloud Computing:

1. Pay as you go model that means you only have to pay for those resources which your application will use.
2. Managing data centers is very difficult for small firms and new applications. Cloud computing takes the pain of managing data center from you
3. You can increase and decrease load at any point of time, you don’t need to worry about guessing usage of your application.
4. New offerings in cloud makes tasks and hosting application very smooth and painless, like many services in AWS SNS, Lambda , S3 and many more