Your employer has a large team of developers that focus on developing an important set of internal business applications. In an effort to speed up time to market of bugfixes and new features you have been asked to find a developer focused cloud platform. What type of cloud computing model has a focus on software development?
A Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a cloud model that focuses on simplifying software delivery. A PaaS will try to automate everything but the software development itself, including the creation of application servers, configuration of those servers, network setup and possibly even creation of additional services like databases or file storage servers. The ultimate goal of a PaaS is to be so simple a developer can upload their code and it will run without the need of specialized IT operations teams to install, configure, monitor, etc. the application.
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