Today’s organizations need to be more agile to respond to customer demands, which requires the ability to quickly scale up to millions of customers and scale down as needed without impacting the budget. Organizations need to continuously acquire new customers, delighting them while working in a fiercely competitive environment. Cloud migration could be the answer for achieving agility and speed. The cloud enables frequent application releases and reduces costs by applying automation and data center consolidation. In this article, you will learn about the benefits of the cloud and some popular public cloud providers.
This article is an excerpt from second edition of Solutions Architect’s Handbook. This handbook will teach you how to create robust, scalable, and fault-tolerant solutions and next-generation architecture designs in a cloud environment.