Costs Reduction
Whether you’re using IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) or PaaS (Platform as a Service), the cloud reduces custom app development costs.For IaaS, virtualizing infrastructure yields savings; there is less on-site equipment to maintain. You also get the benefit of remote monitoring and management. Scalability for growth is not seamless; it’s more streamlined and less costly than owning your own equipment.PaaS offers additional money-saving benefits. You don’t need to maintain anti-virus software, patches or hardware updates, and scalability is seamless. PaaS also provides ubiquitous access from any modern browser. It’s more flexible for add-on productivity-improving capabilities, such as Google App Engine.
Development Time Reduction
With a constant eye on efficiency, developers crave speed of delivery. Cloud platforms have the potential to dramatically reduce development time. Here’s why. As noted in a Tech Republic article summarizing an October 2018 report, IDC FutureScape: Worldwide IT Industry 2019 Predictions, app development has been in constant evolution. Today such cloud-native technologies like serverless computing and containers have reshaped the development process.When you combine this with tried-and-true agile methodology and cloud DevOps and site reliability efforts, it allows you to speed innovation and delivery over what you could do in the past. In fact, the IDC report predicts that 35 percent of all apps will be cloud-native.
Risk Reduction
Some unique aspects of cloud infrastructure reduce risk for users. For example, the cloud has more redundancies than an on-premise environment, including multiple server locations and multiple copies of a custom application. Compared with traditional hosting models, this reduces the risk of lost data.Gartner predicts 95 percent of cloud security failures through 2022 will occur because of errors on the end user’s part, not the cloud itself. The cloud will continue to offer even more built-in security, which makes it a terrific place to house data and build apps.It also is quickly becoming the core backbone of business processes for a number of reasons including increasing digitization of workflows, cost-control and scalability benefits, and risk reduction. Developers who assess their options will find that the cloud is an excellent choice for custom development work because they can take advantage of the cloud’s benefits immediately.
Cloud development optimizes mobility’s benefits
The chasm between desktop and mobile apps continues to narrow. Users want apps that work on any device from anywhere. The cloud is a fantastic choice for developing and maintaining business apps that enable workers to do this because it best supports mobile user needs. Using the agile methodology for development, as opposed to the waterfall method or other development lifecycle techniques, combining cloud-for-mobile and agile results in a powerful methodology for developing custom applications in the cloud for any device — in a shorter period of time.
Using cloud services is not only convenient but also provides people with great opportunities.
