Disadvantages of cloud computing

The creation of cloud computing has created a sudden shift from the traditional ways that businesses think about IT resources. This causes an increase in the number of organizations that accept it.

Statistics are healthy, while the global cloud computing market plans to grow from $ 781.27 billion to $ 2,29 trillion by $ 2032.

Despite this positive outlook, however, it was not sufficient in solving a new change that was held in the technology industry. For example, trends such as the Internet of Things, Industry 4.0, and growing applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in intelligent devices and intelligent houses, continued to show more redundant in many areas, exhibiting some of its shortcomings.

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What is cloud computing?

Cloud Computing is a model in which sources such as databases, servers, storage, software, network, intelligence and analysts are supplied over the Internet. It is a type of computer technology where businesses do not have to own their data center or computational infrastructure for access or have these computational resources.

It offers a flexibility company when deploying resources tuning on their business goals, but if you are considering migration of the cloud at any time, check out these disadvantages before taking such a step.

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Disadvantages of cloud computing

Occasionally downtime

The nature of the cloud computing is vulnerable to the server downtime. During downtime, customers are forced to wait for the connection to be restored before they have access to the service. Depending on how long it has been a jauto, this situation can cause critical damage to business.

For example, a 2023 Statist survey revealed that cloud network outages were quite common, because 54.1 percent of respondents reported the service provider’s infrastructure as the main reason for outages.

Limited flexibility and control

Cloud Computing is operated in a way that denies the owners of enterprises the ability to manage and monitor the entire cloud infrastructure. This situation often leaves business with little or no control over their data. In addition, depending on the principles of service provider and the license agreement on end users, customers can also limit how they can handle their commitment.

In most boxes, if such a police actually, customers will have limited access to what tool, application and data can be deployed on the cloud provider.

Compatibility of the supplier from

The transition from one provider to another in the competition environment was the main challenge of cloud computing. In the cloud provider, businesses are ensured how smooth it is to migrate to other providers for them. However, experience has shown that this is not the case.

They exist with compatibility because some applications functioning correctly in one cloud platform may not be compatible with another provider. This risk causes many people to worry about the migration of their resources to other providers.

Safety and threats

Although most cloud providers use several safety measures to prevent hackers from preventing their cloud infrastructure, the occurrence of data violation suggests that cloud computing is still susceptible to attacks. As a result, saving business files and key data in virtual data centers is a potential risk.

Over the years, there have been several high -ranking data disruptions:

• Microsoft (2023).
• Snowflake (2024).
• Oracle Cloud (2025).

Latency from

Cloud latency describes the time required by cloud service operator to respond to the client’s request. This latency is a serious problem, especially because the world has witnessed exponential growth of data generation and connected devices.

With multiple data generated from these devices, there is a potential increase in the occurrence of latency of the cloud service. The time that requires data to travel to cloud host centers for computing processes and back to the client side affects Cloud Computing. Therefore, IoT and intelligent industries accept computer technology as a computer model.

High costs

Due to the large volume of data and files stored in the cloud, users require great access to these data to access the bandwidth.

Although many cloud service providers have rebuilt their payment to reflect the AS-You-uou payment model, it still costs a lot to connect to cloud services. This can be fine for a big organization, but not too many novice businesses can afford it.

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This article was originally published in September 2022. Antony Peyton was updated in July 2025.