In today's rapidly evolving world, where technologies are advancing swiftly, the shift in computing resources and infrastructure is excitingly transforming IT operations. This is the era of cloud computing, revolutionizing how businesses and individuals store, process, and manage data.
The trend towards cloud computing continues to accelerate, so let's understand what it means and how it is changing how we use resources today.
Let's start with some basics!
How does the Website work?
From the above diagram, you can visualize how a website works when a client requests some data from a website. It can be imagined as if your request is a letter, the server is the destination, and the internet is a postman. You send a request, the Internet forwards the request till it reaches the destination and vice versa.
Components that can make up a Server
Compute: CPU
Storage
Memory: RAM
Database
Network: Switch, Routers, DNS server
The idea behind traditional IT infrastructure
Traditionally, every startup and company needs to own their infrastructure to scale and provide functionality to their businesses. However, there is limited scalability to store and process data.
Problem related to traditional IT infrastructure :
Adding and replacing hardware takes time
Expense of purchasing hardware
24/7 monitoring of infrastructure
Disaster management
Power supply, cooling and maintenance
Hiring a team of professional experts for the functionality of the data centres
What is Cloud Computing?
In simple terms, it means accessing IT resources from a cloud service provider when you need them and releasing them when you don't. You can access as many resources as you need, almost instantly. Pay-as-you-go pricing means you pay only for what you use.
Some Cloud Services you've been using!
It's really exciting to see the cloud services we've been using and never imagined what they rely on!
That's it for this blog. Stay tuned as we dive deeper into this cloud journey.