Cloud computing transforms business processes, providing flexibility, efficiency, and scalability.
However, there is a flipside to the use of cloud computing: these benefits are not without drawbacks. The route to cloud success requires balancing many advantages with thoughtful planning.
Here are five key challenges IT professionals face in cloud management and how to solve them using the right virtual machine (VM) and cloud computing solutions.
1. Complexity of Multi-Cloud Environments
Managing several cloud environments can feel like juggling burning torches: difficult and dangerous. It is not just complex, but also risky, as it becomes gradually difficult to maintain consistency across multiple clouds.
Each cloud provider offers its own interfaces, tools, and management standards, making standardization more challenging.
Data is stored in different clouds, making it difficult to access and analyze.
Similarly, maintaining and managing multiple clouds incurs higher operational costs and increases potential errors.
Recent studies highlight the impact: 44% of organizations reported a cloud data breach, and among those, ~31% were caused by misconfiguration or human error (according to 2024 Cloud Security Study by Thales).
To deal with this, choose a primary cloud platform that ensures strong visibility and control but maintains backup and disaster recovery (DR) options with the same or different providers. Standardize security and monitoring practices and automate key processes to reduce human error and maintain consistency across all environments.
How myDelska Helps: Designed for developers, SMBs and IT professionals, myDelska simplifies cloud management by providing a clear, unified view of all virtual machines and resources. The platform’s intuitive interface reduces the risk of human errors, while built-in monitoring and automated notifications keep teams informed of any critical changes. With flexible deployment options across multiple locations and easy configuration of backups, firewalls and security policies, myDelska helps maintain control and consistency without sacrificing the benefits of multi-cloud strategies. Explore MyDelska.
2. Difficulty in Scaling Resources
Ensuring Low Latency and High Availability Across Locations
By ensuring optimal performance and availability across geographies, businesses face a significant challenge for cloud infrastructure. Relying on a single cloud region can lead to increased latency, increased risk of downtime, and performance bottlenecks due to unexpected demand spikes or network congestion.
Reliance on a single location also increases vulnerability to outages. In 2024, critical cloud service interruptions among major providers increased by 18.0%, with their total duration rising by 18.7% compared to the previous year. Six of these critical outages lasted more than 10 hours, totaling nearly 100 hours of downtime (according to Parametrix Cloud Outage Risk Report 2024).
Concentrating workloads in a single location can lead to resource contention, especially during peak traffic periods, which can degrade performance. Distribute workloads across multiple data centers and reduce latency and downtime.
Moreover, consider if you store all your data and systems with one provider. Especially with the latest major outage of a global cloud provider, it is strongly advisable to maintain a multi-cloud cloud provider strategy & store data with several providers. Otherwise, all your critical systems can become unavailable in a matter of seconds & recovery may take a lot of time.
With recent geopolitical developments and concerns over data security, we strongly encourage you to pay close attention to the topic of sovereignty of your preferred cloud platform. If you are based in Europe or work with personal data of European citizens, choose sovereign European cloud platforms with data centers closer to your region, branches or where your users are based.
How myDelska Helps: myDelska provides access to multiple European data center locations, allowing businesses to deploy VMs strategically in Latvia, Lithuania, and Germany. We minimize latency, improve redundancy, and take care of high availability for mission-critical applications. Taking into account the current business landscape with various risks, including geopolitical ones, make sure you have infrastructure not just in one location, but in several. For example, you can have one of your sites in Riga and store backups in Frankfurt.
3. Unpredictable Costs
Many businesses experience bill shock when managing IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and PaaS (Platform as a Service) costs. You’re not alone if you’ve ever been hit with a cloud bill!
It’s often difficult to keep track of every workload and resource, especially when provider costs and usage increases can change without notice.
Overprovisioning (allocating more resources than needed) or variable workloads that suddenly require more can lead to unexpected costs. Even small, unnoticed expenses can become a big problem.
Cloud service providers don’t always explain their service costs in detail, or their schemes are so complex that they are difficult to understand without further explanation.
To avoid unexpected costs, choose a cloud platform with clear and transparent pricing policies and explore all possible business expense trackers. Set time limits or receive notifications about potential changes.
Choose the payment model that is the most suitable for you, either for a certain period (subscription cost) or only based on the amount actually consumed (pay-as-you-go). In any case, careful service traceability is required, if you see and understand how costs can be formed at the respective cloud platform.
How myDelska Helps: myDelska offers predictable and transparent pricing, helping businesses track and manage cloud expenses effectively. The platform provides both regular and high-performance virtual machines, starting at just 10€/month, along with a flexible pay-as-you-go model and unmetered inbound and outbound traffic. By providing a clear overview of resources and costs, myDelska allows customers to plan budgets confidently without worrying about hidden fees or unexpected charges. See myDelska pricing below.
4. Resource Provisioning Delays
Whenever a team needs additional IT resources, it often faces a long chain of approvals. The more complex the IT infrastructure implementation process, the more approvals may be required, and this back-and-forth process can significantly slow down development cycles and leave teams idle while waiting for the green light.
Manual setup and configuration are often required after approval and during implementation. While these tasks are essential, they tend to be time-consuming and increase the risk of errors, further delaying project deadlines.
IT teams can quickly become overwhelmed with requests, which will hinder the timely delivery of the necessary IT infrastructure. This is especially problematic for organizations operating on multiple high-priority projects at the same time.
By choosing cloud as a service or VM as a service, it is possible to successfully eliminate a large part of the obstacles and give teams faster access to the necessary resources.
Leverage self-service cloud services, schedule and automate approvals and configurations with predefined templates, and use API integrations to dynamically scale resource provisioning.
How myDelska Helps: myDelska offers instant virtual machine (VM) deployment, reducing provisioning time from hours to minutes. With API automation, businesses can rapidly scale IT infrastructure – automatically create, configure and scale VMs, manage resource allocations, and automate routine tasks such as starting, stopping, or snapshotting virtual machines.
5. Security and Compliance Challenges
As business data becomes more and more dependent on cloud platforms, many companies face increasing challenges in protecting sensitive data and meeting strict regulatory standards. These challenges most often arise in multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments, where risks increase and control becomes more difficult, making the importance of security and compliance undeniable.
When data is moved to the cloud, it becomes a potential target for cyberattacks. Threats such as ransomware, phishing, and unauthorized access can seriously compromise sensitive information. Strict measures to protect data are necessary, especially when the cloud is used by multiple users or organizations at the same time.
Companies must navigate a maze of rules and regulations, from the general GDPR to HIPAA and others, that are standard for compliance to a specific industry. Failure to comply with any of these rules can result in fines, litigation, and, ultimately, a loss of a company’s valuable reputation. Be able to consistently interpret and enforce the condition across all systems and service providers.
Use advanced firewalls and real-time threat monitoring, implement multi-location backups, and ensure compliance with built-in security features and industry certifications.
How myDelska Helps: myDelska strengthens cloud security through multiple layers of protection and compliance. The platform provides real-time monitoring and automated compliance controls. It also includes advanced backup management, allowing users to define their own backup policies — from one-time backups to fully scheduled routines with customizable frequency. Each virtual machine can be secured with private (Mikrotik, Arista NG, pfSense) or shared firewalls, which can be configured individually or applied via templates across multiple VMs. Our data centers are Tier III certified by the Uptime Institute and built according to EN 50600 Class 3 standards. Delska is also certified with PCI DSS and ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO 22301:2019, ISO 50001:2018, ISO 9001:2015, and ISO 14001:2015, ensuring high levels of data integrity, availability, and operational reliability. Together, these measures give IT teams confidence that their cloud infrastructure remains secure, compliant, and resilient against cyber threats.
Why We Built myDelska
“myDelska platform is intended to be user-friendly and transparent, making it easy for IT professionals to access the necessary resources. Our primary users are IT professionals who require immediate access to IT resources to perform their tasks. The platform allows them to create, receive, manage, and increase their resources based on their needs.” – Edgars Lukss, DELSKA R&D Lead
To learn more about how myDelska self-service cloud platform was created, learn more in the earlier interview with Edgars. Back in time, the platform was originaly called myDEAC, it became myDelska after DEAC rebranded to Delska in 2024.
About myDelska and Delska
Delska is a data center solutions provider based in Northern Europe with more than 26 years of experience in data centers and network operations. Delska is a joint brand launched in 2024 by Latvia’s data center operator DEAC and Lithuania’s Data Logistics Center (DLC). In 2025, the Lithuanian data center RackRay became part of Delska companies’ group, which are owned by Swiss Quaero European Infrastructure Fund II.
With owned data centers in Riga and Vilnius and points of presence in Frankfurt and Amsterdam, Delska can expand your IT infrastructure as the primary or backup data center for businesses in Northern Europe and beyond.
Our cloud-based platform, myDelska, offers affordable VMs with added-value features that even large cloud providers do not include.If you’re looking for a cost-effective, secure, and scalable cloud platform, try myDelska today.
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