Running your solutions in the cloud is the most effective and safest way to operate. You might have heard that one before, but what makes it true? And how do you navigate when regulations require a local setup? In this blog, we explore all opportunities and benefits of the cloud: for efficiency, security, and to ensure business continuity.
What if you’re required to have a local set up?
When talking about running solutions in the cloud, we mean operating fully online, as opposed to managing a physical infrastructure. It's a common misconception that you can't use the cloud when national regulations require data to remain within country borders. After all, public cloud datacenters are spread around the world. Fortunately, cloud providers allow you to choose geographic locations for storing your data. The availability of these cloud regions is growing, and allow you to use the cloud but still be compliant to local rules.
Use the cloud for a more efficient operation
Running a local environment might give you more control over your infrastructure, it also means a larger investment in hardware maintenance.
To run a secure and well-functioning infrastructure, hardware has to be replaced when its economical and physical lifecycle ends – typically every five years. Additionally, businesses often over-purchase hardware to meet potential future needs, making it more challenging and costly to scale operations when needed.
Using the cloud, there’s no need to invest in a fixed amount of physical hardware, giving you more flexibility. Resources can be quickly scaled up and down to meet your business demands. All hardware maintenance is being handled by the public cloud provider.
Through the cloud your software provider can also keep your applications up to date automatically. This faster time to market greatly improves the functionality and security of your solutions.
Ensure business continuity through the cloud
Besides the operational benefits, the cloud also provides powerful measures for business continuity. Geo-redundancy is an important example of this: when one server goes down, another instantly takes over. These different availability zones ensure your environment is always up-and-running. On top of that, it’s typically easier to configure automated backups and disaster recovery plans in the cloud. It would be expensive and more complicated to replicate a similar system locally.
And of course, we can’t overlook security. Both the centralized management and automatic maintenance under the hood strengthen your security posture. Besides round-the-clock physical security of their datacenters, cloud providers also invest in a security operations center (SOC), to monitor the digital infrastructure 24/7. Thanks to their scale, they are able to comply to multiple security standards (such as ISO) that are challenging to match at a local level.
Why we choose the cloud
At PXS, we prefer to run our solutions in the cloud. It’s our proven method for a fast go to market, ensuring our clients stay aligned with modern standards at a competitive price. The cloud’s flexibility allows us to effortlessly scale resources as needed. Additionally, our solutions are secure by design, with solid technical and organizational measures in place to safeguard data security and availability.
Would you like to know more about our experiences with the cloud? Don’t hesitate to reach out!
