Contribution of Cloud‐Based Services in Post‐Pandemic Technology Sustainability and Challenges
Neeraj Kumar Pandey, Sampoorna Kashyap, Ashish Kumar Sharma, Manoj Diwakar · 2023
In view of the COVID-19 outbreak, many companies and education systems have enabled their own online mode of working and making their resources available online on their local servers. There is a need to move the entire information and communication technologies (ICT) infrastructure to cloud with the same capability and performance. In a pandemic, users are exposed to various risks due to unsafe network or using public network for confidential tasks. So, the cloud computing environment plays a very significant role in the security and service availability. In this chapter, the contribution of cloud in all major industrial domains is the focus. Specific tools and services available on cloud for addressing dedicated industrial issues are helping in business automation in the era of Industry 4.0. So, with the help of cloud technologies the other backbones, like data analytics, IoT and machine learning, are creating miracles for industries and businesses. The contribution of cloud technologies in agriculture, weather forecasting, medical image analysis, security, ICT, and entertainment is discussed in this chapter with future application and utilities. This chapter also exposes the various applications and tools used in different industrial areas supported by cloud computing.