Cloud is giving them the computing resource flexibility they need so that they are never limited in capacity, and they can avoid the pain of making an upfront, capex-based investment.

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The primary priorities when determining the use of cloud computing continue to be cost, timeliness, and resource optimization.

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They only paid for the computing power they used, avoiding the cost and resource burden of building infrastructure in-house.

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