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cloud-vs-onprime

Cloud adavantages:​

  • Cost-effective: you pay for what you consume. Pay-as-you-go (PAYG)

  • Global: we can choose regions in every part in world

  • Secure: cloud provider put a lot of effort to secure services

  • Reliable

  • data backups

  • disaster recovery

  • data replication

  • fault tolerance

  • Scalable: increase and decrease resources and services based on demand

  • Elastic: automate scaling during the spikes and drop in demand

Cloud drawbacks​

  • Less customisable: could provider sometimes doesn't provide customised support and some issue may take a long time to be fixed
  • Long terme costs: using some cloud services for a long terme may become expensive and also sometimes to get most of some services it requires to pay for additional features
  • Data ownership and transparency: less clarity about owenership and how the data is stored

On-premise brawbacks​

  • Maintenace
  • Less scalability: often require to buy the new server to be able to add computing resources
  • Less availability:
  • Support: should support