Only pay for what you use. No need to source expensive hardware or pay for energy. The burden for dedicated IT staff to maintain your internal infrastructure will also be reduced, freeing up resources that can be better served to support the user.
Cloud providers try to supply faster networks to the customer end-points. The technology behind this is both redundant and fast. Technology is moving so fast and cloud providers are quick to adopt this and typically have short refresh cycles.
When it comes to ensuring your data is both safe and secure, the cloud has you covered. Microsoft 365 for example uses multiple technologies to ensure your data is kept safe and secure.
Trying to predict the future is hard to impossible, but that’s what the IT department did when specifying new servers and hardware. With the cloud this has changed, you can buy what you need for now and either scale up or down as the requirements change.
In recent times it was important for users to be able to work from anywhere. The cloud made this easy. Imagine the cost of hardware needed to enable your workforce access to on-premise data. The cloud has this built-in with additional controls of who, when and where the data can be accessed from.