Which are the Advantages of PaaS?

The benefits of PaaS are segmented in intrinsic benefits, meaning that they are benefits that derive from the structure of the PaaS service by default, and service provider dependent benefits, deriving from the cloud services providers’ offering.

• Intrinsic Benefits

• Simple, Does Not Distract Developers: You can focus on website and app development with all the available DevOps tools, without the hardships and complexity that come with IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service).
• Pay for Resource Usage, not Resource Limits: This could become a game changer at lowering the costs of cloud hosting altogether. When you acquire a server under the IaaS cloud model, you practically reserve the resources regardless of using them or not. With PaaS you only pay for the resources that you practically use, when you use them.

• Cloud Provider Dependent Benefits

• User-Friendly Environment: Since PaaS has a specific target audience, software developers, it is highly optimized for this use case. It removes handicapping factors of IaaS, and of course offers practical freedom in contrast to SaaS.
• Flexible PaaS Pricing Model: MassiveGRID offers a very flexible PaaS pricing model. Users can purchase “PaaS Recharge Cards” that range from $5 to $500. Depending on the hardware and software resources that the cloud environment consumes, users are invoiced according to their needs, based on hourly billing.
• High-Availability: Even though PaaS allows users to develop, deploy and manage any application quickly and easily, the overall quality highly depends on the servers and overall IT infrastructure it runs on. This is why it is very important that the service provider has a very high quality IaaS offering. MassiveGRID, focuses on delivering high throughput, high reliability and high security computing services. As a result, MassiveGRID’s cloud IaaS offering is based on high-availability architecture. MassiveGRID PaaS runs on High-Availability nodes, deployed exclusively in Tier3+ and Tier-4 Data Centers. This is how we are able to offer a clean and transparent 100% Uptime SLA to our clients.
• 1-Click Deployment of Popular Apps: PaaS Marketplace provides a plethora of ready-made apps, databases, even ready made clusters, such as the Magento Cluster. All these cloud-based applications and software can be deployed in literally one click, on their own PaaS environment (something similar to IaaS virtual machines), in just a few minutes.