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Azure PaaS

Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provides developers with a complete development environment and infrastructure for building, testing, deploying, managing, and updating applications. It includes servers, storage, networking, middleware tools, and development frameworks. Developers can focus on coding applications without worrying about maintaining infrastructure. Azure PaaS offers services like web apps, mobile apps backends, logic apps, functions, and web jobs that host custom applications and business logic. It provides benefits like scalability, cost savings, and reduced time-to-market for applications.

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Azure PaaS

Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provides developers with a complete development environment and infrastructure for building, testing, deploying, managing, and updating applications. It includes servers, storage, networking, middleware tools, and development frameworks. Developers can focus on coding applications without worrying about maintaining infrastructure. Azure PaaS offers services like web apps, mobile apps backends, logic apps, functions, and web jobs that host custom applications and business logic. It provides benefits like scalability, cost savings, and reduced time-to-market for applications.

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Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)

Platform as a service (PaaS) is a deployment and development environment within the


cloud that delivers simple cloud-based apps to complex, cloud-enabled applications.
PaaS is designed to support the complete web application lifecycle of building,
testing, deploying, managing, and updating.

PaaS includes a complete infrastructure of servers, storages, networking, and


middleware development tools like business intelligence services (BI), database
management systems, etc. A complete platform is offered in PaaS in which the client
can host their applications without the need to worry about the maintenance of the
servers and its operating systems. However, the user of the PaaS service should
look after the implementation of the developed application to decide whether to
scale it up or down depending on the traffic that the application receives.

Azure PaaS

Figure 2 Source: Microsoft

The PaaS backbone utilizes virtualization techniques, where the virtual machine is
independent of the actual hardware that hosts it.

Azure Cloud Services has two main components; the application files such as the
source code, DLL, etc. and the configuration file. Together these two will spin up
a combination of Worker Roles and Web Roles. On the cloud services, Azure handles
all the hard work of the operating systems on your behalf, so that the full focus
is to build a quality application for the end users.

The Web Role is an Azure VM that is preconfigured as a web server running IIS
(Internet Information Service) which automatically loads the developed application
when the Virtual machine boots up. This results in the creation of the public
endpoint for the application which is usually in the form of a website but could be
an API or similar.

Azure PaaS

Figure 3 Source: www. robertgreiner.com

The Worker Role runs alongside with the Web Role and performs the computing
functions needed for the smooth operation of your application. The Web Role will
accept the user’s input and will queue up for an action to process later by the
Work Role. Subsequently, this enables the Web Role to be more productive and
responsive.

Azure PaaS services


Azure offers five main services of Platform as a Service in which multiple service
types host a custom application or a business logic for specific use cases:
1. Web apps
These are an abstraction of a Web Server such as IIS and Tomcat that run
applications written in mostly in Java, Python,.NET, PHP, Node.js, etc. These are
simple to set up and provide a variety of benefits, available 99.9% of the time
which is a key benefit.

2. Mobile apps
The back ends of mobile apps can be hosted on the Azure PaaS easily using the SDKs
available for all major mobile operating systems of iOS, Android, Windows, etc. It
enables the unique ability of offline sync so the user can use the app even if they
are offline and sync the data back when they are back online. Another major benefit
is the ability to push notifications allowing sending of custom notifications for
all targeted application users.

3. Logic apps
No apps are hosted, but there is an orchestrated business logic app to automate a
business process. These are initiated by a trigger when a predefined business
condition is met.

4. Functions
Functional apps can perform multiple tasks within the same application. These
functional apps host smaller applications such as microservices and background jobs
that only run for short periods.

5. Web jobs
These are a part of a service that runs within an app service on web apps or mobile
apps. They are similar to Functions but do not require any coding to set it up.

Where PaaS is used


PaaS is often seen in Business Organizations for the following scenarios:

Development Framework
PaaS offers application developers the ability to create applications using the in-
build software components of PaaS such as scalability, multi-tenancy and high
availability which highly reduces the amount of coding for the application that the
developers must do, making the development life cycle significantly shorter.

Analytics/Business intelligence (BI)


Additional intelligence tools of PaaS allow organizations to mine and analyze both
user behavioral data and application data, predict the outcomes to improve the
product design decisions, business decisions, and increase the return on investment
by analyzing insights and application usage patterns.

Along with the scenarios mentioned earlier, PaaS includes additional services that
enable users to have a stable PaaS platform and enhance the applications hosted,
like security and workflow scheduling. It allows new capabilities without the need
to add additional staff with specific skills to implement these features.

Why use PaaS


Since PaaS builds on top of IaaS, PaaS offers more features of business tools,
middleware and development tools while providing the advantages and value that come
up with IaaS.

Time efficiency
With the development tools offered by PaaS, developers can further reduce the time
spent for coding the new app since they can integrate the pre-coded components of
the platform such as security features, directory services, search options, etc.
into the developing application.

Application lifecycle
You can manage Application Lifecycle efficiently because PaaS is designed to
support the complete web application lifecycle of building, testing, deploying,
managing, and updating.

Multi-platform support
The ability to develop applications for multiple platforms of computers mobile
devices and browsers makes application development much easier and quicker.

Geo-distributed development
Since the development environment is accessible via the internet, multiple
development teams located in various locations can work together on application
development.

Cost
The primary benefit of using PaaS is its utility billing model, i.e., it bills only
for what is used. Because PaaS provides both the hardware and the software
infrastructure eliminating the need to invest in hardware and software, it yields
significant cost savings.

Who is Azure PaaS for?


In General, Azure PaaS is ideal for but not limited to:

Development teams in businesses who want to significantly reduce the time it takes
their applications time to get on the market.
Organizations that have high operational costs that want to lessen the
administration needs for a set of applications.
Organizations that require critical support metrics for usage and chargeback.
Organizations that want to slash costs spent on IT, and reduce database elements
and operating systems complexity while increasing scalability.
Businesses that want to improve the quality of service of their company can greatly
benefit from PaaS.

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