Agility
- Definition
- The ability to move quickly: experiment, build, deploy, and change direction in minutes rather than months.
- The business benefit, not a technical mechanism.
- What creates it in the cloud
- Resources provisioned in minutes instead of procurement cycles measured in weeks or months.
- Low cost of failure — spin an experiment up, tear it down, pay only for the hours used.
- Access to a broad catalog of managed services instead of building capability in-house.
- Global deployment in a few clicks.
- Distinguish from neighbors
- Elasticity — capacity tracks demand automatically.
- High Availability — the system stays up through failure.
- Agility is about speed of change for the organization; the other two are runtime properties of the system.