In the words of wikipedia - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing)
"Cloud computing is Internet-based computing, whereby shared resources, software and information are provided to computers and other devices on-demand, as with the electricity grid".
Auto Scaling enables the application developers to enable the resources added to the site/application at production when needed as according to the hits to the site, http://blogs.msdn.com/b/gonzalorc/archive/2010/02/07/auto-scaling-in-azure.aspx, if my site is a success and the traffic is high it will be added with extra servers and storage to my site. And if it is a failure I may need to pay only the lost cost for the single server or minimum resources. Thus reducing risk of investment.
Came to know these are the sites which are already using cloud computing for their applications.
- Zynga.com
- NetFlix.com
- Hungama.com
- Animoto.com
And Microsoft is planning office suite 'Office 365' on cloud http://www.microsoft.com/en-in/cloud/default.aspx
One game site was a huge success and it just got from 80 servers to 3000+ server in a single night.
OKEY, but what if I am not getting any revenue of my site and I want to restrict to only 1 (or few to fit in my budget) server?
Simple I can set the Auto Scalling to off on my account of cloud computing. Later I can use auto scaling when I am ready to invest.
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