The document discusses the business advantages of cloud computing, highlighting its 'pay as you go' model that shifts expenses from capital to variable. It emphasizes reduced costs associated with over-provisioning and enhanced agility in infrastructure provisioning, which can occur in seconds. Additionally, the cloud offers global scalability and mitigates risk associated with experimentation.

1. The Business Case for the
Cloud

2. Cost
● The cloud typically works on a “pay as you go” model
● Infrastructure moves from capital expense to variable
expense
● Reduces the fiduciary risk of experimentation
● Reduces over provisioning costs by removing capacity
guessing
● Leverages economies of scale

3. Speed
● Cloud infrastructure templates can be written/deployed
with code
● Provisioning happens in seconds
● Global in minutes
● Increased agility
● Reduced heavy lifting