December 9, 2024
Cloud services eliminate the need for physical hardware, reducing maintenance and operational costs.
Companies can easily scale resources up or down based on demand without investing in physical infrastructure.
Cloud solutions offer flexibility in managing and accessing data from anywhere, facilitating remote work.
Security:
Cloud providers offer robust security measures, often better than what a small business could implement on-site.
Cloud services often include backup and recovery solutions, ensuring data protection against unforeseen events.
Start your development, build and release faster with the required technologies for business.
Provision the resources we need instead of over-provisioning.
Access cloud resources from anywhere.
You can pay only for what you are using.
Focus on application development, build and release to market instead of worrying about the underlying infrastructure.
Multiple users share the same pool of resources, which helps to drive down each user's costs.
Resources can be hosted in redundant data centre locations, to provide increased reliability, resiliency and high availability.
Scale up and down as needed.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by cloud compute services provider offer as a services.
Cloud service providers offer streamlined security to protect the workloads data, accounts and resources
Businesses can choose the model for their flexibility, security, and management control.
Public Cloud
Private Cloud
Hybrid Cloud
Multi Cloud
Poly Cloud
The public clouds are a “shared tenancy” model, a physical server that has been shared with multiple customers from the cloud provider data centre through the internet as a service.
Public cloud also sponsors dedicated physical servers for business that need to meet their compliance, licence, etc.
Leading Public Cloud Providers in 2024
As we move into 2024, the landscape of public cloud providers continues to evolve with key players dominating the market. Here are the top public cloud providers to watch:
Amazon Web Services (AWS):
Renowned for its broad suite of services and global reach, AWS remains a leader in cloud computing.
Microsoft Azure:
Known for seamless integration with Microsoft products, Azure is a strong contender with a vast array of services.
Google Cloud Platform (GCP):
GCP stands out with its data analytics and machine learning capabilities, catering to businesses of all sizes.
IBM Cloud:
With its strong focus on hybrid cloud solutions and AI integration, IBM Cloud serves various enterprise needs.
Alibaba Cloud:
Dominating the Asian market, Alibaba Cloud excels in e-commerce support and global data centers.
A single organization-hosted internal or external data centre to designs operates, and access it internally, which is managed by internal IT teams. Build using software like the OpenStack platform.
Bounded public and private cloud.
One organization uses multiple public cloud providers to run its workloads and infrastructure. This approach allows organizations to leverage the best features of each provider, improve redundancy, optimize costs, and avoid vendor lock-in.
One organization uses multiple public cloud providers to leverage specific services from each cloud provider for specialized reasons.
Understanding the various cloud service models is essential for businesses seeking to leverage cloud computing effectively. Here are the primary models offered
Provides virtualized computing resources over the internet, offering flexibility and scalability for users to configure and manage their infrastructure.
Cloud vendor provides on-demand physical and virtual computing resources, storage, network, firewall etc as managed services.
Cloud providers will use hypervisors such as Xen, KVM, VMware Exsi, Hyper-V, and Nitro to provide the computing resources as a virtual.
Infrastructure as a service is the backbone of all other cloud services. Generally, after the compute has been provisioned, then customers setup other needed components.
Facilitates application development by offering a platform with built-in software components, allowing developers to focus on creating applications without managing underlying hardware.
Deployed on top of IAAS, which could on Container, VM, or Bare-Metal.
The PaaS model helps users to focus on developing the application, running and managing without worrying about the platform.
PaaS solutions can be Managed and Self-Managed.
Managed PaaS solutions are hosted by public cloud providers like AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud.
Self-managed PaaS is hosted on-premises using a platform like OpenShift platform.
Delivers software applications over the internet, enabling users to access and utilize them through a web browser, eliminating the need for local installation and maintenance.
SaaS solution model hosted on top of the PaaS and IaaS.
Provide service as ready-to-use software, mostly on a subscription basis to the market.
Allows developers to deploy individual functions or pieces of logic in an event-driven manner without managing servers, optimizing resource use and reducing costs.
Provides a platform to manage and run containerized applications, offering control and orchestration tools to deploy, manage, and scale containers effortlessly.
Businesses increasingly leverage cloud technology to enhance operations, improve scalability, and reduce costs. By adopting cloud solutions, companies can access computing resources on-demand, thus enabling rapid deployment of applications and services. Cloud platforms offer enhanced collaboration tools, improved data analytics capabilities, and robust security features, allowing organizations to focus on innovation and growth while ensuring
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Rehosting (Lift and Shift), Replatforming, Refactoring, Rearchitecting, Rebuilding, Replacing
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Happy Computing :)
Bala Subramani K
Founder & CEO of Kubelancer Private Limited
Senior DevOps Engineer / Multi-Cloud Solution Architect / Infrastructure Specialist
