Authors:
Jens Albrecht
and
Kai Wadlinger
Affiliation:
Fakultät Informatik and Technische Hochschule Nürnberg, Germany
Keyword(s):
Cloud Computing, Platform-as-a-Service, PaaS, App Engine, Bluemix, Azure, Heroku.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Cloud Applications
;
Distributed and Mobile Software Systems
;
Software Engineering
Abstract:
A wide variety of service models and options is being offered by cloud solution providers, ranging from
simple infrastructure to complex business applications. While the use of cloud-based infrastructure and software
services has become common in many enterprises, the Platform-as-a-Service model has yet to take off.
Platform providers have invested heavily in their offerings in the last years. The result is a big toolbox consisting
of cloud-based components for everything that is needed to implement, deploy and run custom software
applications. The developer’s expectation is that these components just have to be configured and
plugged together to get scalable multi-tiered applications. In our research, we practically evaluated major
cloud development platforms on the basis of the requirements of a typical web-based business application.