* Allows companies to bring application to the market quickly and deployed within a limited budget
:'''e.g. NASDAQ Market Replay application uses Amazon's S3 cloud for data storage but the application part is not running in cloud presently. It has plans to develop future applications in Amazon's EC2.'''
==Companies using cloud computing==
===Activision===
*Activision prepared to launch the newest edition of its biggest selling game ''Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock'' Just before the holiday season.* As the shopping season was approaching, the company had less time and lacked resources who could test the web site.* Activision used SOASTA CloudTest automated testing solution which runs on Amazon EC2.* Activision was able to implement the required changes in time to meet their marketing kickoff as a result the game ''Guita Hero III'' was named the best selling video game in a single calendar year.:[http://www.soasta.com/successstories/index.html Source: soasta.com]
==Cloud computing in online photo sharing==