Cloud Provisioning: A Highly Optimized, Cost-effective, and Efficient Deployment Model

In a push towards cloud migration, many organizations provide landing platforms to host custom-built solutions. Unfortunately, this approach is primarily based on IaaS architecture, resulting in very high costs. Selecting the right subset/mix of cloud services is a complex and non-intuitive process. We have developed an AWS-hosted PaaS solution which efficiently integrates over a dozen cloud services to provide a high-availability serverless platform requiring little to no maintenance at a fraction of the cost of traditional cloud solutions. This highly optimized platform can be easily tailored to any small to medium- size web application for quick deployment without compromising performance. This paper presents the rationale behind selection of chosen services, and solutions used to overcome integration and optimization challenges.