3. • What businesses benefits
do cloud computing
services provide? What
problems do they solve?
Question 1
• What are the
disadvantages of cloud
computing?
Question 2
4. • How do the concepts of capacity
planning, scalability, andTCO
apply to this case? Apply these
concepts both to Amazon and to
subscribers of its services.
Question 3
• What kinds of businesses are
most likely to benefit from using
cloud computing? Why?
Question 4
5. Question 1
What businesses benefits do cloud computing
services provide? What problems do they
solve?
BENEFITS
potential
cost savings
ease of
sharing data
and
applications
quickly find
the desired
information
automatic
backups
reduced
support and
maintenance
costs
improve the
efficiencies
6. Question 1
What businesses benefits do cloud computing
services provide? What problems do they
solve?
EXAMPLES SOLUTIONS
•Amazon • to get flexible computing power and data
storage
• helpsAmazon get a large amount of
computing resources
• can help Amazon separate, allocate and
arrange these resources
• can help Amazon’s computing resources
• save costs and increase profits
• spend more time on other work which had
more value
• build a large database, and can help us to
quickly find the desired information
• improves the work efficiency
• Outback company • save costs and increase profits
7. Question 1
What businesses benefits do cloud computing
services provide? What problems do they
solve?
EXAMPLE SOLUTIONS
• Zynga Company • automatic backup data and transmits
data
• can reduce support and maintenance
costs
• to transfer one game’s large data is
easier than using other old applications
8. Question 2 What are the disadvantages of cloud
computing?
Reliability
user loses control over the software application and
becomes dependent on the provider to maintain,
update and manage
If something goes wrong, the
user does not have direct
access to the software and
must depend on the provider
to fix the problem
If the provider is unresponsive
or unable to fix the problem
quickly, the user can
experience significant issues
this small amount of
downtime can lead to large
revenue losses for firms that
need 24/7 availability
9. Question 2 What are the disadvantages of cloud
computing?
Security
gives away private data and information,
things that might be sensitive and confidential
company’s sensitive data and
information will be stored on
third-party servers, and will
probably have very limited
knowledge or control
regarding this information
make the company
vulnerable to external hack
attacks and threats
very limited knowledge or
control regarding this
information
10. Question 3
How do the concepts of capacity planning, scalability,
andTCO apply to this case? Apply these concepts
both to Amazon and to subscribers of its services.
Capacity Planning Scalability Total Cost Ownership
• the process of predicting
when a computer hardware
system becomes saturated to
ensure that adequate
computing resources are
available for work of different
priorities and that the firm
has enough computing power
for its current and future
needs
• Amazon must plan its future
needs to be capable of
providing sufficient
computing power for both
AWS and Amazon retail
services, a lack of which will
result in the a fore mentioned
rejection by subscribers
• the ability of a computer,
product, or system to expand
to serve a large number of
users without breaking down
• an ability of a system,
network or process to handle
a growing amount of work in
capable manner or its ability
to be enlarged to
accommodate that growth
• Amazon must be able to
provide its customers with
services that are scalable, as
it claims to do on its website
• a financial estimate
intended to help buyer and
owners determine the direct
and indirect cost of a product
or system
• Amazon must provide
hardware capacity planning
and scalability
• Amazon must bear the total
TCO of its services, while
Amazon is also needed to
maintain the profitability of
the company
11. Question 4 What kinds of businesses are most likely to
benefit from using cloud computing? Why?
BUSINESSES BENEFITS
• Information Internet companies
(Facebook, Google, Instagram, Blogspot,
Ebay, etc)
• can store large information, and share
the information
• Large multinational corporations • people from around the world can get a
faster connection
• help employees of multinational
corporations to establish good
communication channels and share the
company's resources
• saves the cost of the work and improve
work efficiency
