Are you using cloud or just renting virtual servers? The difference matters. A lot. Most insurance platforms were never designed for the cloud. They were designed to operate from the insurer’s data centers.
Cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure and Google Cloud rent virtual servers that any software can install on including legacy insurance software. Many legacy providers are doing exactly this and calling it “cloud,” but it’s really legacy technology on a rented server.
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