Using cloud infrastructure is the natural starting point for any new project because it’s one of the ideal use cases for cloud infrastructure – where you have unknown requirements; the other being where you need elasticity to run workloads for short periods at large scale, or handle traffic spikes. The problem comes months later when you know your baseline resource requirements.

As an example, let’s consider a high throughput database like the one we use here at Server Density. Most web applications have a database storing customer information behind the scenes but whatever the project, requirements are very similar – you need a lot of memory and high performance disk I/O.