- Allows for convenient access for everyone in a certain company to get information
- Helps you get organized faster
- Provides computation, software, data access, and storage services for companies
- Cost of management is cheap
- Reliability-You can get many services, like applications.
- Don't have to use same piece of hardware, as the information is all on the internet
- Easy to customize in order to benefit a business
- There is almost unlimited storage on the cloud, leaving a company with one less problem to worry about
- Requires a flow of internet speed and good bandwidth
- You must be very careful for which provider you use. The company that you may use will have all of your personal information
- Ongoing costs: As long as you're still using the cloud computing, you have to pay money to the company that owns the software
- It's either not possible or not likely that you would have the access or control on the cloud since someone else owns it
- Limit Flexibility-Cloud computing gives you a lot of but it comes with a lot of constraints.
- Some people say it is not secure
- Since cloud computing is based on the internet, if the consumer is unable to access the internet at any given time, then they also won't have access to their data stored on the cloud
- While the internet is a great resource, it is also at risk of breaches and hacks. Again, cloud computing is based on the internet, so it is also not completely safe, and data can be hacked.
- Cloud computing is often something that locks in the consumer, which makes it difficult, if not impossible, to go to a different service. Also, this puts your information at risk of security breaches.