Benefits of cloud computing to ecommerce

Cost Savings: Cost is the main reason for implementing cloud. Though the initial cost
required for ecommerce app to design and execute, the additional cost associated with it
of bandwidth and hardware add up to the overall cost making it costly. The cost reduction
of about 80 percent can be achieved by implementing cloud.

Security: The cloud has better security because the vendors of it provide security using
ISO 27001 and SysTrust audit marked certification. VI has certification of ISO 27001 and
ISO 9001. Additional security is provided using the encryption, vulnerability assessment,
biometric screening.

Interoperability: The growing popularity of cloud ecommerce will provide better

sharing of data among cloud centers and cloud. The cloud has best structure holding the
capability of parallel access to its users, staff and partners (Stephenson and Singhal
2008).

Concerns in cloud based ecommerce

Security: Cloud is internet based. Therefore all the processes are carried out on network.
Where ever the internet comes, securities issues arise therefore close monitoring and
secure transmission needs to be done. Therefore, leading providers of cloud offers good

service.
Technical concern: No matter how good service the providers offer, there always arise
the issue of technical problem (Legregni and Hall 2010).