High manageability

A major benefit of cloud computing is the manageability options. There are two types of manageability for cloud computing that you’ll learn about in this series, and both are excellent benefits.

Management of the cloud

Management of the cloud speaks to managing your cloud resources. In the cloud, you can:

• Automatically scale resource deployment based on need.

• Deploy resources based on a preconfigured template, removing the need for manual configuration.

• Monitor the health of resources and automatically replace failing resources.

• Receive automatic alerts based on configured metrics, so you’re aware of performance in real-time.

Management in the cloud

Management in the cloud speaks to how you’re able to manage your cloud environment and resources. You can manage these:

• Through a web portal.

• Using a command line interface.

• Using APIs.

• Using PowerShell.