{"id":1993,"date":"2023-04-05T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sigcorp.com\/insights\/benefits-of-platforms-as-a-service-paas\/"},"modified":"2023-04-05T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T03:30:00","slug":"benefits-of-platforms-as-a-service-paas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sigcorp.com\/insights\/benefits-of-platforms-as-a-service-paas\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefits of Platforms as a Service (PaaS)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What are the Benefits of PaaS? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In order to understand the benefits of PaaS, you must first understand what a Platform as a Service means. It’s also important to know that cloud Platforms as a Service (PaaS) are often referred to as managed [cloud] services.<\/em><\/strong> These terms can be used interchangeably. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is a PaaS or a Managed Service?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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A PaaS or managed service is a service provided by a cloud provider. Common providers include Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Compute Cloud (GCP), and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Users can access full functionality from the cloud provider without the need to setup, manage, or maintain the underlying infrastructure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Managed services supply building blocks for running modern cloud native software applications. This includes services for databases, storage, logging and monitoring, security, DNS, Load Balancing, content delivery, queuing, notifications, and many more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because the Cloud Service provider manages the underlying platform, these managed services greatly reduce operational overhead<\/strong> for clients. It also helps to limit the exposure to incidents related to human error. This also improves security posture by reducing the size of the manually managed server fleet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Database as a Service<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the most beneficial managed service clients can take advantage of is the managed database as a service (DBaaS)<\/em><\/strong>. For example, AWS<\/a> Relational Database Service (RDS) is a managed DBaaS. This allows you to provision and run a database such as MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, or MS-SQL for your applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a managed service there is no need to provision the underlying virtual machine, provision storage, configure the operating system, install the database software, or create the database. DBaaS typically provide features for the automation of patching, upgrading, failover, and backups<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although relational databases created via traditional virtual machines (IaaS) can scale vertically to increase compute resources, a managed database service can automatically scale up and down based on demand<\/strong>. For read-heavy applications, you can easily scale horizontally <\/strong>beyond the capacity constraints of a single instance by creating one or more read replicas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The drawback of managed database services is the loss of access to the underlying operating system<\/strong> and filesystem. If the workload requires sysadmin access to the OS or filesystem, then databases as a service is often not an option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some other examples of popular managed services include:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n