Platform as a Service

In this service model, the cloud platform provides services that allow customers to develop, run, and manage applications without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure. Often this is facilitated via an application template system, that allows easy creation of new services. For example, providing a standard template for an application type, framework or even programming language.

With this, we could reduce complexity and the overall development of the application can be more effective, and maintenance and enhancement of the application are easier. Usually, the cloud will provide capabilities to patch and configure the different servers.

Examples of these platforms are:

• Google App Engine
• IBM Bluemix
• Microsoft Azure Cloud Services
• Pivotal Cloud Foundry
• Red Hat OpenShift