Amazon Web Services, MS Azure, IBM Cloud, and Oracle Cloud are the major Cloud Service Providers in the global scenario.

Mobile-first solutions powered by Cloud applications are driving the business scenarios today. The easy development activity on local machines sans dependence on costly and yearly licenses, pay as you go flexibility, anytime anywhere access, high computing power, easy scalability, synergizing the work and home locations through telecommuting, and role-based access of mammoth business systems are just some of the benefits offered by the Cloud environment.

On-premise IT architecture can be migrated to the Cloud within a few weeks with the help of process accelerators. System Integrators and Cloud Service Providers are adept at enabling businesses in transitioning to Cloud. Globally operating multi-mineral solutions provider, such as Ashapura, has efficiently transitioned their on-premise SAP suite with HANA database to Cloud within a short period of time.

Cloud services can be availed in different modes – IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS are the common ones. In IaaS, you pay per use for services availed, such as storage, network, virtualization, etc. In PaaS, you avail both hardware as well as software offered by Cloud. In SaaS, you avail third-party software and services over the Cloud. Businesses can choose their preference for IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS as per business requirements.

Different Cloud Service Providers specialize in different services. Hence to establish a flexible Cloud environment, businesses have to procure different services from different Cloud Service Providers. For example: AWS offers a backup service outside India. In case a business wants the backup within India, they can procure an MS Azure backup service.

Multi-Cloud environment is safe as they follow global security standards and protocols. Multi-factor authentication, identity access management, and data encryption are just some of the features for securing the Cloud infrastructure. Ensuring the same security policies across all the Cloud environments ensures consistency. Using unified security management across the Multi-Cloud environment allays the security concern of Cloud engineers.

The outsourced IT and infrastructure management of the Cloud-service environment to improve the business operations over the Cloud is broadly referred to as Cloud Managed Services. The Cloud Managed Services Providers or MSPs efficiently handle the daily Cloud service performance monitoring, reporting, testing, backups, etc.