A great benefit of being in the cloud is a reduction of capital expenditure. If you’re a start-up, your life is going to be a lot easier and cheaper if you don’t have to outlay hundreds of thousands of rands on the servers and networking you will need to operate your business.

For pay as you go free, you can have a lot of machines spun up and available at almost a moment’s notice. Plus, since resources in the cloud are elastic, you can scale up (or down) as needed with very little pain