Cloud Computing Pros and Cons

Question 1

Pro: Cost

Answer 1

• No need to set up and maintain servers

- No need to train specialist staff to maintain servers.

Question 2

Pro: Easy to Implement

Answer 2

No need to deal with backend setup of bare metal servers.

Question 3

Pro: Accessibility

Answer 3

Access Data Anywhere
Access Apps Anywhere
Increased collaboration due to accessibility

Question 4

Pro: Scalability

Answer 4

Resources can be added and removed as demand increases or decreases

Question 5

Pro: Distributed

Answer 5

Resources are distributed across multiple regions

Regions can share the load when servers go down

Question 6

Pro: Deployment Speed

Answer 6

Increased deployments speed
Ability to iterate through different configs
Experiment with different configs

Question 7

Con: Less Control

Answer 7

You must rely on customer service from the cloud provider.

You don’t have as much control as you would with purpose-built infrastructure.

Question 8

Con: Less customisation

Answer 8

You rely on a set number of services that your provider has available.
These may not perfectly cover your needs.

Question 9

Trust

Answer 9

You are handing over your data and app to a third party.

You aren’t privy to the internal workings of their infrastructure.

Question 10

Issues with maintaining your own servers.

Answer 10

You need to track:
Power
Heat / Cooling
Processing Power.
Anticipate Demand

Storage and processing power changes every day
You have to buy specialist Servers that must align with bare metal that you already have and this has to be installed by professionals.

The more complex your infrastructure is the harder it is to build upon.

You have to facilitate multiple codebases

Question 11

Security

Answer 11

AWS provides encryption and security