Examples of AWS PaaS services – Leveraging the Cloud for Digital Transformation
Examples of AWS PaaS services
Here are some examples of the most popular PaaS offerings in the AWS ecosystem:
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk: Beanstalk is a simple service that enables the deployment of web applications in various programming languages and can scale up and down automatically.
- Amazon RDS: Amazon RDS is another excellent example of a PaaS. Amazon offers a variety of databases, such as MySQL, Postgres, and Oracle. When using Amazon RDS to use these databases, You can focus on writing our applications against them and let Amazon handle the underlying management of the database engine.
- AWS Lambda: Lambda is another relatively simple and fully managed service that can quickly scale to handle thousands of requests per second. It requires almost no configuration and removes the worry of having to provide your hardware. AWS Lambda is also referred to as a Function as a Service (FaaS).
- Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS): Amazon EKS is a fully managed service that enables running Kubernetes on the cloud without installing Kubernetes or deploying your servers.
This concludes the PaaS section. Now, let’s learn about the following possible scenario – Software as a Service (SaaS).
Understanding SaaS
SaaS, or cloud application services, are services where most of the heavy lifting is done by the cloud provider (in this case, AWS). In this case, you will not have to install software or worry about the operating system or software patches. Your focus will be on customizing the application’s business logic and supporting your users. Most SaaS will only need browser access as most of the computation will be done on the cloud side.SaaS gets rid of the need for your staff to visit individuals’ devices in terms of software installation. AWS is fully responsible for any issues on the server, middleware, operating system, and storage levels. Let’s now analyze the characteristics that makeup SaaS, the advantages and disadvantages of using a SaaS deployment, and some SaaS examples.
