Comparison of AWS and BlueMix PaaS Cloud Service Providers

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Abstract:
Cloud services has emerged as one of the global preference for the management and
advancement in the technological field. However, there is complexity involved in the
selection of the service. Hence, the paper, has compared two of the cloud service provider
and determined some crucial facts that can assist a reader in the selection of the service. The
paper has been concluded by stating the no cloud service provider is perfect for all the users
and depending on the needs different cloud services can prove to be suitable for a user.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Cloud Service Providers.............................................................................................................3
Shortlisted..............................................................................................................................4
Comparison of AWS & BlueMix...............................................................................................4
Offered services.....................................................................................................................4
Design & Navigation..............................................................................................................5
‘Hello World’ app deployment..............................................................................................6
BLUEMIX............................................................................................................................12
Level of Complexity............................................................................................................18
Ease of Management............................................................................................................18
Costing model:.....................................................................................................................18
Author’s Opinion.....................................................................................................................19
Conclusion................................................................................................................................20
Bibliography.............................................................................................................................21

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Introduction
Cloud services have provided great opportunities to the developers globally. After the
introduction of Cloud PaaS (Platform-as-a-service) the developers do not have to make huge
investments or face complex issues in getting appropriate platform or tools for developing
applications (Lang, Wiesche and Krcmar 2016). However, heavy surge in the cloud service
providers have confused the end-users on the selection of the service provider. The options of
cloud service providers are vast from Amazon to Google and multiple others, all of them are
providing some unique offering to the clients (Abdelmaboud et al. 2015). Hence, the
developed report is an attempt to minimise the confusions that the developers are facing. The
discussed objective of the paper will be achieved by shortlisting most prominent PaaS
providers and selecting one of them to compare with IBM BlueMix (Lins et al. 2015). The
deployment and development process of the ‘Hello World’ of the AWS and the BlueMix has
also been provided. Finally, the author’s perception over the best PaaS cloud service after the
comparison will be provided before concluding the paper.
Cloud Service Providers
PaaS is the platform that enables the user to develop, maintain and test different
applications, O.S (operating System), networks, servers and others (Whaiduzzaman and Gani
2014). The following list offers the most prominent cloud service providers that offers PaaS
service: Amazon Web Services (AWS) Google App Engine Microsoft Azure IBM BlueMix Red Hat OpenShift

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 Adobe Oracle Cloud SAP Heroku
Shortlisted
AWS, Google App Engine and Microsoft Azure are the market leaders of the cloud
services and most prominent of them is the AWS. Hence, AWS is selected as the co-subject
of the paper.
JUSTIFICATION 1: The selection of AWS is based on the fact that, it is the current leader in
the cloud service providers and captures over 62% of the cloud market (Novet 2018). It also
offers almost similar offerings like the Blue mix but differ in the mode of operation.
JUSTIFICATION 2: The service offered by the AWS offers huge scalability option and have
proven itself to be reliable.
Comparison of AWS & BlueMix
Both of the subjects of the paper, are global leader in technology and cloud services.
However, they differ from each other in some aspects of which the foremost id the
implementation (Wang and He 2014). While, AWS is more suitable for the professional or
corporate purposes, BlueMix is suitable for the scholarly works that includes experimentation
within the labs, academic works and others (Jiang, Ma and Wei 2016). Additionally, BlueMix
offers ease of use while, its counterpart offers flexibility (Fiaz, Guruprakash and Navaz
2017). Hence, it can be stated that both of them are offering similar services but with
different approach. The following section will attempt at getting an in-depth knowledge about
the subjects by comparing them.

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Offered services
It has been stated in the justification that both the subjects offer almost similar
services to each other. However, there is some basic difference and the following table
discusses the same:
Services offered AWS BlueMix
Internet of Things AWS offers features like
MQTT communication, HTTP
and others with the AWS IoT
SDK.
On the contrary, IBM offers
configured IoT platform.
Artificial Intelligence The AI service offered by the
AWS is comparatively weaker
than its counterparts.
IBM offers a stable AI service
to the users.
SDA (Scalable Digital
Application)
It leads in the considered
service because of its huge
scalability.
Offers limited scalability
option and hence, is lacking in
this field.
Others The services are designed for
the business and similar
applications.
They have their focus on the
scholars and students mostly.
Table 1: SERVICE COMPARISON OF THE SUBJECTS
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Design & Navigation
The first thing that a user notices while using a platform or a service is its design and
navigation because it decides the comfort that the user will enjoy while using the service
(Lins, Teigeler and Sunyaev 2016). AWS has kept the vitality of design and navigation in