PaaS is a cloud computing model that enables consumers access to remote computing platforms and one or more applications, without having to build and maintain the infrastructure necessary for developing and launching the application(s). Perfect for developers wanting to create, develop, and package software.
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What Is PaaS?
In the cloud computing model continuum, PaaS is right between IaaS and SaaS. With PaaS, a cloud provider offers infrastructure, servers, networking, storage, database, middleware, operating system (OS), security, runtime environment, infrastructure monitoring, analytics, and an ability to integrate with 3rd party services.
Programmers bring in their code and application data. Note that PaaS by no means makes coding redundant! It’s not a drag-and-drop app builder. Rather, a PaaS provider enables coders to concentrate on what they do best, i.e., coding! The result is significantly faster application development.
Developers also need to provide their application-specific data, however, the PaaS provider addresses everything else. You can develop, run, and manage your apps over PaaS.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is certainly one of the top PaaS providers. It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone since AWS has one of the best cloud capabilities in the market. Read “Top cloud computing vendors” to know more about the pole position AWS has earned.
Google App Engine is Googles’ PaaS. Its functionality integrated with Google Cloud Platform, which uses the same infrastructure as the Google search engine. That should put to rest all your apprehensions about the robustness of the underlying infrastructure.
IBM provides rich and scalable PaaS solutions for developing cloud native applications from scratch, or modernizing existing applications to benefit from the flexibility and scalability of the cloud. IBM Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud is a fully managed OpenShift service that uses the enterprise scale and security of IBM Cloud to automate updates, scaling and provisioning, and to handle unexpected surges in traffic. Your teams can jump-start development and app modernization with a range of tools and features, and deploy highly available fully-managed clusters with a single click. IBM Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud was named the leader in The Forrester Wave: Multicloud Container Development Platforms, Q3 2020 (PDF, 415 KB). IBM Cloud Pak for Applications helps you modernize existing applications, embed additional security, and develop new apps that unleash digital initiatives. It offers cloud-native development solutions that can quickly deliver value, along with flexible licensing that can be tailored to your specific needs.
Some cloud providers offer their IaaS and PaaS components together, where customers can make a choice suited to their requirements. Microsoft Azure follows this approach. Their PaaS is offered on the same robust infrastructure as the Azure IaaS & SaaS offerings.
A key player in the software development landscape even before the advent of cloud computing, Oracle is also a significant player in the PaaS market. Oracle Cloud Platform (OCP) combines both open source and Oracle proprietary technologies.
Other PaaS providers include: Apache Cloudstack, Salesforce, VMware
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