Elastic Computing

Every business has times when they need more computing power. For a retail operation it could be around the holiday season, for a college it could be during the application submission process, or for an insurance company during enrollment. Whatever the case, utilizing the Cloud can help you better manage those spikes cost effectively.

Today companies have to plan for those busy times and purchase enough servers and storage to meet peak demand, and then some. This means that during the slow times your infrastructure is under-utilized and you are paying for more server capacity than you actually need.

With Cloud Computing and Amazon Web Services, you have the ability to enable an elastic infrastructure. Since you only pay for what you need you can move your entire infrastructure to the Cloud and scale it up or down as needed. Or you can keep your current infrastructure and utilize the Cloud to handle those seasonal spikes.

You can also configure your infrastructure to grow as demand grows. So if your CPU utilization hits 80% it can automatically spin up new servers, or if it drops to 20% it can shut down servers as well. Since you are only paying for the hours you use, this can result in substantial cost savings. 

Scalability with AWS

With AWS, instantaneous scalability is a non-issue.  Go from 10 instances to thousands in moments.  What if your new application or services goes viral?  AWS get scale to the highest transaction volumes.