For small orgs: global reach! If you need an active component near your customers for low latency responses, the cloud makes it very cheap to deploy tiny VMs o

For small orgs: global reach! If you need an active component near your customers for low latency responses, the cloud makes it very cheap to deploy tiny VMs or small containers all over the place. It’s trivial to template this out, scale up and down for follow-the-sun or to account for local traffic spikes. If you need it, you need it, and nothing else meets this need except perhaps some CDNs with “edge compute” capabilities — however those are quite limited.