A Review of Cloud Computing on Sustainable Development: Contribution, Exploration and Potential Challenges

Sustainable development is a strategy that brings into consideration both the immediate and long-term requirements, such as social and economic justice or environmental conservation and natural wealth. Cloud computing is the supply of computing environments, including analytics, software, networking, databases, storage and servers, in order to provide agile creativity, scalable capabilities, and scale economies. This research explores many different cloud features that bring advantages to sustainable development, such as easy maintenance, positive economic impact, resource pooling and large network access. This study also investigates various features of contemporary cloud service providers, namely Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, that assist sustainable development. Lastly, this paper elaborates on potential challenges in cloud sustainability in terms of security, management, hidden expenses and lack of expertise.