Once the enterprises start becoming comfortable with the IaaS, the next wave of adoption comes in terms of adoption of PaaS as part of the application workloads. In this stage, the enterprises start discovering services with the following benefits:
- Platform services replacement: This involves the identification of potential platform features of the enterprise, lifting and shifting the workload, and replacing it with equivalent platform services from the cloud provider. For example:
- Replacing application messaging systems with queuing systems provided by the cloud provider (such as AWS SQS)
- Replacing data stores or relational database management systems (RDMBS) with equivalent managed data services (such as AWS RDS)
- Replacing ...