If anything that cloud excels decisively over on-premise approach is scalability, only few years ago a dream for Infrastructure engineers is now a reality. Online resources can be scaled up or down almost instantly.
Security is today's biggest concern for the companies, cloud offers built-in security features that range from individual online resources to more optimised security appliances
Unlike traditional environments we do not need to worry about commissioning physical servers and devices on premise therefore no special approvals needed either. We can simply deploy any type of resource at any time
Cloud offers deployment of specialist appliances to support remote connectivity along side free options that are good enough for small companies
Different cloud providers offer different SLA's for their online services but even the lowest is generally much better than their on-premise counterparts
Most cloud services are automatically backed up or provide options to enable backups of online resources, thus eliminating the needs of maintaining expensive on-premise backup devices.
Cloud offers several collaborative tools that are generally free and serves the purpose for most companies
All online resources can be monitored with built-in tools and offer a simple process to setup alerts for service changes or disruption. Traditionally this would require a specialist software to achieve this functionality
Almost all online services are automatically updated and require customer to simply agree on date and time of the upgrade.