Software Architect's Handbook

Greater flexibility and scalability

Taking advantage of the cloud offers enterprises greater levels of flexibility. Workloads can scale up and down based on demand very quickly, even when large amounts of computing resources are suddenly needed. Large cloud providers have global scale. In addition to being able to deliver the right amount of compute resources at the right time, they can do so from the right geographic location.

Cloud computing allows businesses to grow relatively easily without having to make major adjustments to things such as the amount of hardware.