Essential Characteristics of Cloud Computing
- Agility.
- High availability and reliability.
- High Scalability.
- Multi-Sharing.
- Device and Location Independence.
- Maintenance.
- Low Cost.
- Services in the pay-per-use mode.
Characteristics of Cloud Computing :
1) Agility
The cloud works in a distributed computing environment.
It shares resources among users and works very fast.
2) High availability and reliability
The availability of servers is high and more reliable because
the chances of infrastructure failure are minimum.
3) High Scalability
Cloud offers "on-demand" provisioning of
resources on a large scale, without having engineers for peak
loads.
4) Multi-Sharing
With the help of cloud computing, multiple users
and applications can work more efficiently with cost
reductions by sharing common infrastructure.
5) Device and Location Independence
Cloud computing enables the users to access systems using a web
browser regardless of their location or what device they use e.g. PC, mobile
phone, etc. As infrastructure is off-site (typically
provided by a third-party) and accessed via the Internet, users can
connect from anywhere.
6) Maintenance
Maintenance of cloud computing applications is easier, since
they do not need to be installed on each user's computer and can be
accessed from different places. So, it reduces the cost also.
7) Low Cost
By using cloud computing, the cost will be reduced because to
take the services of cloud computing, IT company need not to set its own
infrastructure and pay-as-per usage of resources.
8) Services in the pay-per-use mode
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
are provided to the users so that they can access services on the cloud by
using these APIs and pay the charges as per the usage of services.
