Tag Archives: AWS

When to Use Cloud Resources

Motivation:

  • You are using on-premises virtual servers and storage for your services.
  • You wonder whether you should move your services to public cloud, such as AWS or Azure or Google Cloud, in order to reduce hardware and maintenance cost.

Suggestions:

  1. It is common that cloud resources for system running 24/7 are much more expensive than private resources.

  2. Cloud resources are suitable forĀ 
    • a very big system that needs to be run only once within limited time, or
    • startup with many consolidated services on single small virtual server, or
    • testing purpose, or
    • a very big company with big budget who want reliable and elastic resources.