- Is AWS better than Google Cloud and Microsoft’s Azure?
All of these comes with pay-as-you-go but the major difference is in their offerings. AWS is the oldest of them all and has the faith of large technology companies with them. And when companies need high-performance computing over the cloud, then AWS is the way to go.
The AWS from Amazon has everything (not something) for everyone with their cloud solutions. When Google and Microsoft moved from SaaS to PaaS and then IaaS with their cloud services. Amazon did it in reverse and nailed it. Taking from IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) to PaaS (Platform as a Service) and SaaS (Software as a Service) all at the same time. With a market share of 47.1%, AWS dominates the public cloud market.
Amazon was the first to bring AWS as EC2/S3, a widely accessible cloud computing infrastructure service. Gone are the days when companies need to set up their own in-house servers and a team to manage and build technology from scratch which requires a good investment of time and resources.
AWS has completely revolutionized the way how companies look at cloud computing now, by removing major roadblocks that companies faced while bringing their data and applications online.
- Which is better in terms of operational cost, a cloud-hosted app or the self-hosted?
All the cloud apps are web apps but not all the web applications are the cloud. Now applications are largely built upon the cloud for high scalability, guaranteed uptime, and lower cost of operations. With cloud-based application development, companies don't need to build and maintain their own stack of technologies and servers. So, if you have a very limited set of users then you can go with self-hosted apps, otherwise, cloud hosting has the upper edge in every part.
You save more time for your core business tasks through the instant availability of new features and services.
- Can I scale, migrate or enhance my cloud-based application later?
The cloud infrastructure is optimized with systems like elastic load balancing, which makes it ideal for handling projects that demand high computing power.
Without affecting the speed and performance, it scales up the required resources to fulfill the sudden demand and downscale when the demand falls.
Talking about the migration and later enhancement into the application developed on the cloud. Yes, the migration and application improvements process does not require changing many processes. You can always improve upon your application on the cloud.
