Platform as a Service (PaaS)
The capability provided to the consumer is to deploy onto the cloud infrastructure consumer-created or acquired applications created using programming languages, libraries, services, and tools supported by the provider. The consumer does not manage or control the underlying cloud infrastructure including network, servers, operating systems, or storage, but has control over the deployed applications and possibly configuration settings for the application-hosting environment.
Applications are built in the “cloud” on the platform using a variety of technologies •
Simplifies orchestration of cloud services •Development, testing, and production environments (servers, storage, bandwidth, etc.) are billed monthly like hosting •
Pay-as-you-go model •
Environments scale up & down at the click of a button •
Concerns include code & data privacy, security and scalability
Benefits
Pay-as-you-go for development, test, and production environments •
Enables developers to focus on application code •
Instant global platform •
Elimination of H/W dependencies and capacity concerns •
Inherent scalability •
Simplified deployment model
Challenges
Governance •
Tie-in to the vendor •
Extension of the security model to the provider •
Connectivity •
Reliance on 3rd party SLA’s
Applications are built in the “cloud” on the platform using a variety of technologies •
Simplifies orchestration of cloud services •Development, testing, and production environments (servers, storage, bandwidth, etc.) are billed monthly like hosting •
Pay-as-you-go model •
Environments scale up & down at the click of a button •
Concerns include code & data privacy, security and scalability
Benefits
Pay-as-you-go for development, test, and production environments •
Enables developers to focus on application code •
Instant global platform •
Elimination of H/W dependencies and capacity concerns •
Inherent scalability •
Simplified deployment model
Challenges
Governance •
Tie-in to the vendor •
Extension of the security model to the provider •
Connectivity •
Reliance on 3rd party SLA’s