Choosing the right cloud solution

To have a better understanding of which cloud solution might suit your requirements, we have created a diagram with an overview of services and their corresponding customer and provider responsibilities:

Figure 2.4 – An on-premises versus IaaS versus PaaS versus SaaS comparison

Let’s dig into the four different types of resource consumption with varied usage and responsibilities.

On-premises

On-premises service usage is the classical deployment and management of resources. The whole responsibility lies with the data center or service owner at all layers – the OS, storage, data, and applications. You must ensure service availability, provision resources, and manage them. In addition, you are responsible for any maintenance activities, and you must plan well in advance, for not only the purchase but also the capacity of the infrastructure.

Infrastructure as a service

Now, we move to the Infrastructure...