Procuring a development environment is a lengthy process. Cloud Computing resolves this issue for developers by making available the necessary resources to meet business and development timelines. The Cloud provides a flexible, high bandwidth solution to support multiple concurrent development efforts or projects that require different environment configurations be available to the development team simultaneously.

Development resource requirements also change during the development of an application and are best-served by a support infrastructure that is adaptable to changing requirements.

A Cloud development environment provides an agile, adaptable, scalable environment and is low cost to deploy and maintain.

By using Cloud for the development environment an agency provides development projects with an IT environment to support multiple concurrent development efforts and multiple configurations instead of investing in an environment for each project. This flexibility helps decrease the length the development cycles and provides better resource availability at a much lower overall cost.