What changes do we saw after the Cloud Computing Era?

Prem Kothari
4 min readMay 6, 2021

Introduction

Figure 1: Cloud Computing

In the start when we have to set up a server, we need to have money to buy a server of your need, electricity to keep the server up all the time, to take manual backup, have our own security, and many other things. So, in this article, we will see what changes we have seen after the technology cloud computing came. Cloud computing in technical words is the on-demand availability of computer resources like storage, server, database, and all. If we break down in simple words doing all your workloads on someone else computer. There are many cloud vendors in the market like Google Cloud Provider (GCP), Amazon Web Service (AWS), Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, and many more. One benefit of the cloud is firms or institutes can avoid buying and maintaining a server, its complexity and rent it from the cloud vendors and be free for all the complexity, and pay for what you use. Before the cloud, we used to store data on a traditional server which includes its own hardware, OS, Storage, and application. For backup, we used to use technology like tape backup, doing the whole backup process normally. Looking for the security of the server on your own was all challenging. After cloud, the whole game has changed so let’s have look at all the changes we have noticed.

Previously, setting up your own infrastructure we used to get only a machine with a root password rest all we need to set up from scratch. Now you can build your whom infrastructure your server at your fingertips without giving physical space. There was a huge difference came in technology after cloud computing came into the picture. With the cloud now you are totally flexible with the amount of RAM, storage computing power, and whatnot.

Flexible Pricing

The biggest advantage is you have to pay for what you use and you can change your need with time. The biggest change we have noticed is in variable pricing, for example, you don’t have to keep the same bandwidth the whole time when you think you will get more amount of public like for e-commerce during a sale like that you can vary it, so basic concept is to pay for what you use. When you buy cloud for the long term you get lots of discounts so it gets more affordable.

Software

The second change which we notice that software has developed a lot it is very user-friendly. We can change and everything from one software without working about anything. Google, Microsoft are big companies in terms of software so their software me very easy to use. With the help of software, we can manipulate everything. Each customization of each setting which we want on our server can be made with the help of software no need-to-know heavy coding.

Autoscaling

Autoscaling which is also known as automatic scaling is a cloud computing technique that dynamically allocated computer resources. Almost all cloud provider gives you the feature of autoscaling. It is one of the savers it takes the thin layer of your code and auto-scale, deciding the exact compute power need for it.

Figure 2: Auto Scaling

In autoscaling, we have to say the minimum capacity and mention the scale-out capacity then as per traffic it will vary use the computing resources.

Choosing Machine

You have lots of options in choosing a machine each machine has its own configuration of ram processor. So, you get a wide range of machines to choose from. You can take the machine which is suitable for your need and fulfill your need. Amazon has 9 types of machines each can has a different size of RAM.

Better Analytics

When you open a billing section in your cloud provider you get proper well-managed analytics of your use in the past month or year, with proper graphs. You get very better analytics of what resource you used how much is the total cost for the month everything well calculated and displayed in a very user-friendly way. A normal user will easily understand where the most of money has gone and how it is divided.

Security

On a physical server, you have to set up your own firewall its rules, and some software for security, you need to keep it up to date take care of all the major, and also be careful from attacks and data breaches. But in the cloud, there is everything pre-configured for users. A user doesn’t need to worry about security while working in the cloud because if there is any fault in configuration the cloud service provider console gives a security alert. It provides basic service for DOS and other server-based attacks. So, when user shift or uses, clod doesn’t have to worry about the security on the cloud.

Conclusion

From when the cloud came into the market it has changed the whole game now even if you don’t have a high gaming processor then also you can play the game on a high setting that much has changed the infrastructure. From setting up your own server, software, storage, and all it had come long ahead with the cloud. It has boosted the technology in this field, and it has given an opportunity to someone who has an idea but doesn’t have their own money to buy a server. In short, the cloud was a revolutionary change in the technology domain. So in this article, we have seen some changes we notice in our life after the invention of the cloud.

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