131. What are the benefits of Utility Computing model?
Utility computing is a cloud service model in which provider gives computing resources to users for using on need basis.
Some of the main benefits of Utility computing are:
I. Pay per use : Since a user pays for only usage, the cost of Utility computing is pay per use. We pay for the number of servers of
instances that we use in cloud.
II. Easy to Scale : It is easier to scale up the operations in Utility computing. There is no need to plan for time consuming and costly
hardware purchase.
III. Maintenance : In Utility computing maintenance of servers is done by cloud provider. So a user can focus on its core business. It
need not spend time and resources on maintenance of servers in cloud.
Utility computing is also known as On-demand computing.