Every day, traditional organisations are competing with digital counter parts that develop their business exclusively in the cloud. To fight this battle, companies are digitizing every area of their operations, looking for agility and insights from operations, data and analytics. This transformational effort includes migrating workloads to public cloud i.e. Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform, private cloud or hybrid clouds. There may applications which may not have been historically deployed as cloud-ready applications. This article is to discuss the, opportunities benefits and challenges of cloud computing.

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Keywords: Traditional, Companies, Workloads, Amazon, Applications.