Cloud databases offer a number of advantages, which are also offered by various cloud services. Here are some of them.
Increased flexibility and innovative features
A cloud database can be deployed quickly and decommissioned just as quickly, which in turn allows new business ideas to be tested, validated and implemented quickly and easily. If a company decides not to implement a project, it is easy to stop working on it (and stop using the associated database) and shift to the development of another business idea.
Accelerated production cycle
With a cloud-based database, you don’t have to purchase hardware and spend time waiting for delivery, installation and network set up while your new product is in the development queue. The database you create from scratch can be accessed in minutes.
Reduced risk
Cloud databases offer a host of opportunities to reduce business risk, especially when it comes to DBaaS models. Cloud providers use automation to reduce the likelihood of human error (which is the most common cause of software failure) and implement security best practices.
Automation combined with service level agreements (SLAs) reduce downtime and prevent losses. Computational scarcity is no longer an impediment to project delivery because the cloud can rapidly deliver unlimited services and infrastructure components.
Reduced costs
Pay-per-use subscription models and dynamic scalability help end users maintain control over capacity allocation: resources can be increased during peak periods, and reduced when conditions return to stable conditions. This is far less expensive than maintaining such infrastructure in-house by pre-purchasing physical servers to handle peak workloads (which may be only experienced on a few days per quarter). Enterprises can save money by shutting down services when they are not needed. They can also cut costs by implementing global initiatives with little capital investment in infrastructure. In many cases, software automation tools in the cloud replace highly paid database administrators.
