There are many reasons you would want to test automation in cloud environments. Here are a few:
Reduced costs: Since you can spin up any number of staging environments to your specifications, buying, setting up, and maintaining expensive hardware is a thing of the past. Plus, automating your testing process frees up valuable resources for work on other projects.
Collaboration: Because testing environments exist on the cloud, multiple teams across departments or locations, and even remote employees, can access the same cloud configurations.
Built to scale: Easily create one, a dozen, or hundreds of testing environments so you can test at scale.
Faster results: You can perform multiple simultaneous tests with parallel execution, allowing your team to get results fast.
Versatility: The cloud makes it easier to simulate various operating conditions — see how your code handles heavy traffic loads, global users, different devices, and more.
Rapid iteration: CI/CD pipeline integration ensures code is continuously vetted during the deployment process.