Reasons behind growing adoption of Cloud after Covid-19 Pandemic and Challenges ahead

TL;DR

The paper explores the surge in cloud adoption post-Covid-19, highlighting reasons, benefits, challenges, and the prominence of AWS, emphasizing its role in enabling remote work and digital transformation.

Contribution

It analyzes the factors driving increased cloud adoption after Covid-19 and discusses the challenges organizations face in this transition, with a focus on AWS services.

Findings

Increased cloud adoption driven by remote work needs.

Challenges include skill shortages and security concerns.

AWS was the most used cloud service during the pandemic.

Abstract

There are many sectors which have moved to Cloud and are planning aggressively to move their workloads to Cloud since the world entered Covid-19 pandemic. There are various reasons why Cloud is an essential irresistible technology and serves as an ultimate solution to access IT software and systems. It has become a new essential catalyst for Enterprise Organisations which are looking for Digital Transformation. Remote working is a common phenomenon now across all the IT companies making the services available all the time. Covid-19 has made cloud adoption an immediate priority for Organisation rather than a slowly approached future transformation. The benefits of Cloud lies in the fact that employees rather engineers of an enterprise are no more dependent on the closed hardware-based IT infrastructure and hence eliminates the necessity of working from the networked office premises. This has raised a huge demand for skilled Cloud specialist who can manage and support the systems running on cloud across different regions of the world. In this research, the reasons for growing Cloud adoption after pandemic Covid-19 has been described and the challenges which Organization will face is also explained. This study also details the most used cloud services during the pandemic considering Amazon Web Services as the cloud provider.