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Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions
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Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions

by Kevin L. Jackson, Scott Goessling
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
378 pages
10h 14m
English
Packt Publishing
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PaaS – background

PaaS takes both IaaS and SaaS and adds yet another twist on trying to solve the problem. As described earlier, people are trying to control costs, eliminate large major cash outlays, accelerate, modernize strategies, and move to only paying for what is needed, when it is needed. IaaS helped but still required a lot of people, skills, and money to support the applications. Based on our direct research, software required between 8x and 32x the annual cost of the server annually in management, maintenance, monitoring, and support. A $6,000 server written down over a 3-year use cycle would cost between $16,000 and $64,000 each year for software support. The cost was dependent on the specific software and organizational efficiency. ...

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