Your Choice: Cloud Technician or Digital Transformer

1.  Variable pricing Cloud service providers charge different prices at different times based on  demand
2. Pre-emptable machines – Providers are offering a lower price for machines that could be shut down and restarted at a later time without aborting the assigned task
3. Shift from hardware to algorithms where the hardware is bundled into the software price
4. Use of reserve instances where the user buys compute power in advance
5. Buying in bulk where pricing is based on aggregated use even if it is sporadic in nature
6. Cloud providers offer shared data sources along with commodity hardware
7. Autoscalingwhere newer software layers offered by cloud vendors handle infrastructure scaling automatically and billing is done by service request instead of by the machine
8. Graphic processor units have become available for jobs requiring heavy-duty parallel computation
9. Much improved analytics that monitoring the performance of your systems.
10. Significant increase in the number of options available for various business requirements and loads
11. “Bare metal” servers that aren’t virtual.
12. Containers, like Docker, that makes deploying software much easier and faster.  The cloud will therefore spin up a new instance with a container-ready version of the OS at the bottom.
13. A growing proliferation of exotic and specialized options, all offering anything you need with the extra phrase “as a service

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