The dynamic nature of the cloud has helped companies rapidly scale services and platforms to support the wave of employees now working from home due to shelter-in-place ordinances. As organizations continue to do their part to flatten the curve, IT leaders who have been the most successful managing this change are being mindful of how an increase in cloud utilization might affect costs and risk profiles.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is an awesome and quick way to get access to a lot of computational power; it is known for providing near-instant access to large amounts of computational resources. Between the API and the web interface, you can quickly scale your application with demand.