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8 Assisting developing countries

In addition to the three proposed options (increase in efficiency, cost effectiveness and no need of IT
infrastructure deployment), responders mention the following motivations to migrate to the cloud:
• scalability in an instance;
• flexibility to switch vendors and platforms with minimal notice without cost overruns;

• resilience and an overwhelming degree of reliability;
• resource conservation owing to workforce redundancy;
• absence of wasted capacity, routine server maintenance or daily backup issues;
• data security and protection from denial of service attacks and spam;
• statutory compliance when housing and processing medical or government data;
• guaranteed uptime and SLA;

• access to the latest licensed software and infrastructure without having to pay for it entirely.
2 Cloud computing usage

2.1 What were the criteria for selecting your current cloud provider?

Figure I.5 – Criteria for selecting CSP

2.2 Which cloud computing service do you use?

Figure I.6 – Popular cloud computing service

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