Physical Servers vs. Cloud Providers
When you’re architecting a solution for some kind of business or infrastructure problem, there are many things to consider: base load, peak load, growth rate, skill levels and specialties of the tech people your client has available to them, and much more. Your solution (whether ‘cloud,’ physical, or both) needs to give the maximum amount of value for the money you’re given to play with.
Let’s take a look at some advantages and disadvantages of both cloud (Amazon AWS EC2) and physical servers.