Cloud computing is currently a hot topic and the ICT industry is witnessing migration of legacy application to the cloud. Its advantages such as theoretical limitless scalability and high reliability of deployed services looks appealing to every industry that needs an IT infrastructure. The electrical industry is not an exception, monitoring and control systems profoundly rely on a resilient and reliable IT infrastructure. In this industry, latency matters since control systems rely on real time data to work. It is therefore not acceptable to work with data that might be already old when it reaches the control systems and the cloud might not be near enough to where measurements are produced to guarantee an efficient control loop.