One of the biggest advantages is the ability to trade capital expense for variable expense. Instead of investing heavily in data centers and servers upfront, you can pay only when you consume computing resources, treating it as an operational expense.
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Why would a startup prefer paying a monthly bill over a large upfront investment?
You can benefit from massive economies of scale. Because cloud providers serve hundreds of thousands of customers, they can achieve lower pay-as-you-go prices than any single company could on their own.
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How is this similar to the way a large supermarket can offer lower prices than a small local shop?
You can stop guessing capacity. When you buy your own servers, you often buy too much that sits idle or not enough, which leads to poor performance. With the cloud, you access as much or as little as you need and scale on demand.
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What's the business risk of guessing your capacity needs incorrectly?
The cloud helps you increase speed and agility. In a cloud environment, new IT resources are just a click away, which means you can reduce the time it takes to make those resources available to your developers from weeks to just minutes.
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What kind of business would benefit most from this speed?
You can stop spending money running and maintaining data centers. The cloud allows you to focus on your own customers and what makes your business unique, rather than on the heavy lifting of racking, stacking, and powering servers.
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What could a business do with the engineering talent freed from managing hardware?
