However, not all applications are economically portable to serverless systems; for those the architect needs to make some good choices as outlined above. There’s no free lunch with cloud computing.

Cloud computing allows businesses to match compute and database capacity to the usage pattern, which saves money and allows them to scale to meet performance objectives (see how). With on-premises ...

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Money can be saved by hosting applications on the most appropriate type of cloud that suits an organization’s needs. Companies only pay for what they use, and they can scale up or down as required.

A “Hybrid cloud” deployment architecture pattern may be the only viable option for such applications that dependent on internal services. Another common use case is Single Sign-On (SSO).

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For instance, if the usage pattern is unpredictable with peak loads causing SLA misses (for example, in retail), such an application should have a higher priority to be moved to the cloud.