Basically there are three elements that makes Cloud unique from regular hosting.
1. Customization: Customer can do whatever he wants with the server.He can make console, dashboard, editing, sharing and many more.
2. Low Cost: You will pay exactly what you used. No extra charges because you will buy the specific bandwidth, storage and the amount of time you are going to use.
3. Virtually Maintained : It needs almost no hardware and run most by software.
The great advantage of cloud computing is that working from anywhere. This flexibility positively affects knowledge workers' work-life balance and productivity.
The advantages are many:
Cloud hosting offers more flexibility as it can auto scale whenever there is a demand spike in the web traffic.
The provisioning of servers and databases are done quicker in cloud hosting those traditional servers.
Cloud hosting provides reduced subscription cost and gives better strategic and competitive advantage over competitors who are still using tradition hosting.
Cloud computing refers to the delivery of computing and storage capacity as a service to a heterogeneous community of end-recipients.
Advantages of cloud databases over traditional databases include increased accessibility, automatic failover and fast automated recovery from failures, automated on-the-go scaling, minimal investment and maintenance of in-house hardware, and potentially better performance.
Advantages of cloud data source over traditional databases include increased availability, automatic failover and fast automated restoration from problems, automated on-the-go climbing, little investment and upkeep of in-house components, and potentially better performance.