Cloud computing has enabled organizations of all sizes to scale computing resources to meet their workloads, remove the need for building and maintaining data centers, slow CapEx planning processes, and eliminate the costs of powering servers with unutilized capacity due to variable workloads.
But the potential benefits of cloud computing have not been realized uniformly across all industry sectors. Several have unique data protection or retention regulations, for example, or contextual factors — such as poor internet connectivity in places of work — that limit the practicality of general-purpose public cloud deployments.
