Benefits

Better control over spending

• The elastic nature of the cloud means that the traditional approach to capacity planning can be replaced with a more pragmatic Just In Time on Demand approach. This is not to say you should not be doing capacity planning. It’s paramount that you do this planning otherwise your costs can run away. What you don’t need to do is provision infrastructure for events that may never happen.

Minimise upfront investment to launch an application

• In the past, it meant heavy and large upfront investment

JIT Infrastructure

• No more guessing capacity

• No more incurring costs when change needs to take place quickly

• No long term contracts, capacity is provisioned on demand

• Infrastructure becomes scriptable which leads to automation