Cloud Computing Report: Microsoft Azure vs IBM Cloud PaaS

This report delves into the landscape of cloud computing, specifically focusing on Platform as a Service (PaaS) providers. It begins with an introduction to cloud-based services and their importance, particularly for businesses. The report identifies key PaaS providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Salesforce, Oracle Cloud PaaS, Windows Azure, IBM Smart Cloud (Bluemix), OpenShift, Cloud Foundry, Google App Engine, CloudBees, and Engine yard. It then provides a detailed comparison between Microsoft Azure and IBM Cloud PaaS (Bluemix), highlighting their differences across various features including IoT services, streaming data, edge compute, email, workflow, scheduling, messaging, API management, application testing, DevOps, game development, predefined templates, backend process logic, programmatic access, enterprise app integration, visual recognition, elastic data warehouse, disaster recovery, scalability, SLA, batch computing, backup, visualization, machine learning, text to speech, information protection, application, and administration. The report also includes a comparison and contrast of the two cloud providers, services offered for smart application development, quality of design and navigation, difficulty of development and deployment, and costing models. Finally, it offers an opinion on which service provider performs better, areas for improvement, and a conclusion summarizing the findings.

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Table of Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................1
Cloud service providers...............................................................................................................................2
List all identified cloud service providers who offer PaaS (Platform as a Service) to develop
applications:............................................................................................................................................3
Microsoft Azure compare with IBM cloud PaaS (Bluemix):.....................................................................5
Microsoft Azure comparison and contrast with IBM cloud PaaS:................................................................7
Services offered for smart applications development:............................................................................8
The quality of design and navigation of the PaaS system:.......................................................................9
The level of difficulty for development and deployment process of the cloud environment:................9
Costing model offered by the providers:...............................................................................................10
Allocate and upgrade resources like memory, space:.......................................................................12
Update/amend host URL, hosting data center, and program/code of the application:....................12
Systematically process required to create and deploy a “Hello World” application..............................12
Opinion - Based on your comparison and contrast of two cloud providers...............................................20
Which service provider performed better and why?.............................................................................22
One area of improvement, that you would like to see over their current services and why?...............22
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................................22
References.................................................................................................................................................23

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Introduction
Cloud-based services are highly used in present era in every industry to increase their
performance and growth as well as other benefits. IBM is a huge vendor, which provides cloud-
based services. Cloud computing is playing a key role in present technologies. Cloud-based
services are primary requirements of small and medium enterprises. However, large-scale
organizations are totally based on the cloud-based services because they have many operations,
which have required large volume of data storage and huge infrastructure to manage their
resources and processes (Asanga, 2017). IBM is a well-known organization, which provides
cloud services to different clients. It has many services to manage different works of the
organization. IBM provides cloud-computing services to different clients. It has 120 services
including Watson services. In addition, Watson is an artificial intelligence and machine learning
based systems ( Barabas, 2019).
Moreover, IBM provides three basic services to their clients, which are Infrastructure as a service
(IaaS), Platform as a service (PaaS), and Software as a service (SaaS). It provides many services
as per requirements of the consumers (Baun, et al., 2011).
Furthermore, IBM, Microsoft, Google App Engine, OpenShift, and many other cloud service
provides are having a high competition in market place. All are trying their best to satisfy their
clients from their services. In present era, most of the organizations are having large amount of
data in their operations. Therefore, they require many services based on the cloud because of
huge cost and time (Bhagat, 2012).
In this report, it will describe about the cloud service providers who offer PaaS to develop
applications. It will provide comparison between IBM cloud PaaS and other service providers. It
will compare cloud service providers in respect of smart application development, and artificial
intelligence applications (Bird, 2018). This report will explain about the costing model offered
by the cloud service providers. In last section of this report, it will provide opinion about the
cloud service providers based on comparison and contrast of two cloud providers. It will explain
about the better service provider. It will also provide area of improvement. In conclusion, it will

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conclude about the major finding about the cloud service providers and PaaS service of IBM
with improvement in service area.
Cloud service providers
In present era, cloud-computing services are highly required to manage operations of an
organization in a proper way in less cost and time. It provides developing environment with
many facilities to develop applications by the clients for their personal business (Blaisdell ,
2015).
Cloud service providers provide an environment on different basic, such as pay and use and
many others. They charge according to space, time, and many other aspects. It is a way to
manage all the services based on their requirement (Blakstad & Andreassen, 2016).
List of cloud service providers who offer Platform as a Service (PaaS):
There are many cloud service providers in the market, who offer PaaS to develop applications.
These are the most popular companies, which provide PaaS to develop applications:
 Cloud Foundry
 Amazon Web Services
 Engine yard
 Salesforce
 CloudBees
 Oracle Cloud PaaS
 Google App Engine
 Windows Azure
 IBM Smart Cloud
 OpenShift
Amazon Web Services (AWS): AWS offers many services to their clients including computing
power, database storage, content delivery, and other services to help in business of an
organization. It has more than 72 services and it is still growing (Business.com, 2018). AWS has
many key features that make it different from others, which are as:

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1. AWS provides services based on organization’s needs
2. It offers standalone services
3. AWS main services are access management, Elastic Compute Cloud, Simple mail
service, CloudWatch, simple storage service, Route 53, and many others.
4. It takes cost on-demand and usage-based Billing
5. It also provide free services
Salesforce: it provides all the applications, which are required by business, such as CRM, sales,
ERP, marketing, mobile applications, and many other services. It provides helps to support
clients anywhere at any time (Heiser & Nicolett, 2008).
Oracle Cloud PaaS: it provides a way to develop applications in low cost. Therefore,
developers can write their code. It provides access oracle services, such as node cloud, mobile
cloud, java cloud, developer cloud, application builder cloud service, and many others. It
supports many languages, such as JAVA EE, PHP, python, and many others (Jansen, 2011).
Windows Azure: it provides help in developing applications, service, and infrastructures. It
provide strong security feature in their cloud service. It has more than 70 azure products that are
related to the storage, database analytics, IoT, AI, and many other technologies. Best part of
azure is collaboration and support different platforms, such as desktop, mobile, and browser
application development. It follows pay-as-you-go for pricing. It starts his plans from $0.013 per
hour per site (Business.com, 2018).
IBM Smart Cloud: IBM provides PaaS services to develop application to enhance business
processes, such as business ideas, applications to production, and others. It provides data,
storage, services, and infrastructure. BlueMix is a previous name of IBM PaaS cloud service. It
provides more than 129 services in different fields. It takes less than 10 minutes to deploy. It
provides free as well as fixed monthly subscription to their clients ( Evans, 2017).
OpenShift: it provide public and private infrastructure to build, create, deploy, and manage
different operations. It supports Kubernetes for managing different containers. It gives access to
several automation tools. It provides web dashboard for easy management of projects (Takabi, et
al., 2010).

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Cloud Foundry: it is an open source PaaS technology, which has established a global standard.
It also provides training and certification to the developers. It has licensed under Apache 2.0. It
works with different cloud services providers, such as IBM Bluemix, Open Stack, AWS, and
many others (Wu, et al., 2013).
Google App Engine: it provide comfortable infrastructure to build mobile and web back0ends
using different frameworks. It provides high security and connectivity to secure your running
work. It provides many benefits to the clients in terms of services. It supports SQL, NoSQL, C#,
Ruby, java, and many other languages.
CloudBees: it provides secure platform for application development without having to
troubleshoot anything. It works with different partners, such as AWS, Azure, and many others. It
provides support of Jenkins expert.
Engine yard: Engine yard provide best services in the Ruby on Rails applications and website. It
offers many services in less cost as compared to other cloud service providers, such as AWS. It
supports Postgres, Node.js, Redis, and many technologies.
Microsoft Azure compare with IBM cloud PaaS (Bluemix):
IBM cloud PaaS is known a Bluemix in previous time. It provides many services to manage
application development process of an organization ( Bodhani, 2018). These are few differences
between both Microsoft Azure and Bluemix (IBM, 2019).
Serial
number
Features IBM cloud PaaS Microsoft Azure
1. IoT IBM IoT(Internet of
Things )
Azure IoT Hub
2. IoT Services Push Notifications using
devices
IoT Hub, Power BI,
Notification Hubs Machine
Learning, Stream Analytics,
( Gerber, 2018)
3. Streaming data IBM has Streaming Azure has Event Hubs for

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Analytics for streaming
data
streaming data
4. Edge compute for
IoT
Nil Azure usage IoT Edge
5. Email SendGrid Nil
6. Workflow IBM use age Business
Rules for workflow
Microsoft Azure usages Logic
Apps, and Azure Automation
or workflow
7. Scheduling IBM has their own
Workload Scheduler to
maintain different works
Microsoft Azure has Azure
Scheduler to maintain different
works in proper way
8. Media transcoding - Microsoft Azure has Media
Services to manage media
transcoding
9. Messaging IBM has compose for
RabbitMQ
Microsoft Azure has Relays,
Azure Queue Storage, Topics,
Service Bus Queues for
messaging purposes
10. API Management IBM has used API
Connect for application
program interfaces
Microsoft Azure has many
applications to manage APIs.
Such as Power Apps API
Management, Studio Team
Services, Web Apps, API
Apps, Visual, Azure Developer
Tools, Cloud Services, and
many others
11. App testing - Microsoft Azure has Xamarin
Test Cloud (frontend), and
Azure DevTest Labs
(backend),
12. DevOps IBM has Delivery Microsoft Azure has Visual

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Pipeline, Globalization
Pipeline, Active Deploy,
Continuous Delivery,
Track & Plan for
application development
Studio Team Services to
develop applications
13. Game development
(Cloud based tools)
- Microsoft Azure has used
Visual Studio fro game
development
14. Predefined templates IBM has Lifecycle project
templates
Microsoft Azure has used
Azure Quickstart templates
15. Backend process logic IBM has Cloud Functions
or backbends processing
logic
Microsoft Azure has used
Logic Apps to manage backend
process logic
16. Programmatic access - Microsoft Azure has used
Azure PowerShell, and Azure
Command Line Interface (CLI)
to manage programmatic
accesses
17. Enterprise app
integration
IBM WebSphere Microsoft Azure has Logic
Apps to manage enterprise app
integration
18. Visual Recognition IBM has Visual
Recognition
Microsoft Azure has used
Emotions API, Computer
Vision API, Face API, Video
API to manage visual
recognition in different
applications
19. Elastic data
warehouse
Db2 Warehouse on Cloud Microsoft Azure has used
SQL Data Warehouse
20. Disaster Recovery - Site Recovery
21. Scalability Auto Scaling Microsoft Azure has used

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Virtual Machine Scale Sets,
Azure Autoscaling, Azure App
Service Scale Capability
(PaaS) ( Hiranandani, 2017)
22. SLA Availability 100% Uptime for Private
& Public Network,
Customer Portal and
redundant infrastructure
99.9% Uptime
23. Batch Computing - Microsoft Azure has used
Azure Batch
24. Backup - Microsoft Azure has used
Azure Backup
25. Visualization - Microsoft Azure has used
PowerBI, PowerBI Embedded
26. Machine Learning Watson Microsoft Azure has used
Azure Machine Learning
Studio, Azure Machine
Learning Workbench
27. Text to Speech - Microsoft Azure has used
Bing Speech API
28. Information
protection
- Microsoft Azure has used
Azure Information Protection
29. Application Cloud Foundry,
Kubernetes, OpenWhisk
Microsoft Azure has used
Web Apps Cloud Services,
Container Service, Logic Apps
30. Administration Azure Log Analytics in
Operations Management Suite;
Microsoft Operations
Management Suite –
Automation and Control
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Explorer Azure Resource
Health,
31. Cost $2.544/hr Microsoft Azure has charged
$13.34 / hr
32. vCPUs 56 Microsoft Azure has 128
vCPUs
Microsoft Azure comparison and contrast with IBM cloud PaaS:
From last decade, there are many cloud provides are present in the market with their specialty.
Cloud service provider has specialty in their work. IBM Cloud PaaS is having many features,
which makes it different from others. In this report, it will compare Microsoft Azure with the
Bluemix. IBM cloud provides SendGrid to email system development and azure is not having
this facility. IBM cloud is not having programmatic access but azure has Azure Command line
Interface (CLI) as well as Azure PowerShell for programmatic access (IBM, 2019).
IBM Cloud Functions are used for backend process logic and azure uses logic apps for backend
process logic. IBM Cloud uses lifecycle project templates for application development and azure
uses quick start templates. Azure is having visual studio for game development, which is a
cloud-based tool, but IBM Cloud is not having such type of feature. Azure uses DevTest labs for
backbends and Xamarin Test Cloud for frontend but IBM cloud is not having this facility. API
management is strong of Azure, as it is having web apps, API apps, Power Apps, and azure
developer tools, but IBM cloud is having only API connect (GARTNER, 2019).
IBM does not have media transcoding facility but azure has media services, which makes it
better. IBM Cloud uses work scheduler for scheduling different process and azure scheduler uses
in the Azure. IBM Cloud provide better developing environment to develop smart applications,
such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications, and Internet of Things (IoT). Azure is having
IoT hub for different IoT services. Azure is having IoT edge but IBM Cloud is not having this
facility. IBM Cloud is having natural language classifier, language translator, as well as Alchemy
API for speech recognition but azure is not having this facility (www.ibm.com, 2019).

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Azure is having Bing Speech API for text to speech translation, but IBM Cloud is not having this
facility. Azure is having information protection tool but IBM is not having information
protection tools. Azure is having site recovery facility for disaster recovery, but IBM CLOUD is
not having this facility. Azure is having their own backup services but IBM Cloud is not having
this facility. Batch computing is available in azure but not in IBM Cloud (Svantesson & Clarke,
2010). Best thing of IBM cloud is 100 % Uptime for public and private network but azure is
having 99.9 % Uptime (Tajane, 2017).
Services offered IBM for smart applications development:
IBM Cloud offers different services, which are helpful for smart application development. It
provides Internet of Things platform facility, where you can setup and manage IoT devices,
which can uses by apps (Bernazzani, 2019). It provides AT&T Flow Designer to design, build,
and deploy IoT solutions with in minutes. It provides weather company data to implement IBM
Cloud application, such as Aircraft management, mining, and many others (Stackify, 2017).
In case of AI, it provides Watson assistant that provides a conversational interface into any
application, device, or channel. IBM provides discovery, which add a cognitive search and
content analytics engine to many applications ( Gupta , 2018).
Google, Microsoft, IBM and many others are came into the market with bringing their personal
ideas and infrastructure, and fast grow to be as much as they can. AWS, Microsoft Azure, IBM
Cloud gives particularly similar abilities, such as infrastructure, services, and networking. This
service provider provides different services, such as, self-provider, compliance, and identity
management offerings, instantaneous provisioning, auto-scaling, and many others. All these
services are as not unusual elements of the public cloud. IBM cloud service providers provide
different services. It is a department of artificial intelligence, and feature added machine gaining
knowledge of gear and functions targeted at present day generation together with IoT and service
less computing (Subashini & Kavitha, 2011).
The quality of design and navigation of the PaaS system:
IBM provides good quality of services to their clients in a proper way. Cloud computing has
now become the critical driving pressure for business in the modern-day market on an
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reliable and satisfactory cloud service providers (Sen, 2014). Organizations want to hit that
perfect aim that satisfies the cost, project requirement, and the output even as harnessing the
energy of the cloud. Cloud service is making a difference from others. It is a small conflict
eventually in time. Azure is a best product in the industry but users are not wants to invest much
cost on all those services. When Microsoft got here up with Azure, it took with a pleasant
surprise and yet, the businesses like IBM Cloud or Amazon Azure have nurtured the cloud
computing over the years.
The level of difficulty in development:
There are many things, which can create difficulty to development of application. Development
process is based on the many aspects, which can create a wall in development process. It is
necessary to understand the working environment of an organization. Issues concerning security
and data integrrity had been addressed by means of the massive three players in public cloud:
Amazon internet service (AWS), IBM Cloud & Microsoft Azure. All three are most popular
cloud service providers because of their services. Amazon becomes the first person who
introduced ‘commoditized’ cloud computing (Chen & Zhao, 2012). Because of the fact that then,
they stored innovating and adding services to maintain an upper hand in the market. This
additionally makes those pricey compared to other cloud companies. Organizations can compare
different services AWS, IBM Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. They have a great deal in
commonplace. However, additionally they have several differentiating capabilities that cause
them to unique from every other on many degrees, which include how they name and group their
services alongside the pricing. In addition, the offerings have a big portfolio together with
Watson, Databases, Analytics, and many more (Colman , 2013).
Moreover, As compared to Microsoft Azure storage and IBM Cloud infrastructure is nowhere as
sophisticated even though their infrastructure offerings are admittedly dependable and robust
(Dinh, et al., 2013).
With Watson on IBM Bluemix infrastructure, company get admission to one of the maximum
sophisticated cognitive technologies for building secured clever apps, which can analyze and
supply textual content, photographs or video content material within the app. IBM cloud offers
the foundation for employer apps, together with those with a cellular-first technique. IBM has
many applications, which are unique in the market. Push notifications, functionality, docker-

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primarily based to apiconnect-based flexible development environments. Universal safety are
some of the key factors to choose IBM cloud ( Gupta , 2018).
Costing model offered by the providers:
IBM Bluemix cloud is a Platform as a provider (PaaS), which supports numerous programming
languages as well as many offerings that help in improvement. In addition, it is beneficial for
different processes and operations. In contrast to Microsoft Azure, the IBM Cloud enables run,
deploy, and manipulate packages over the cloud in little while. It is a best part of the IBM that it
provides bets user interface. With the features like Bluemix live Sync, organizations are able to
replace a walking app robotically by means of connecting your Git repo via a simple interface,
incorporated supply code editor, charts for projects popularity and many other things (Miettinen
& Nurminen, 2010).
A big catalog of third-celebration and IBM open supply APIs lets in builders to hook up with any
software without problems as well as rapid processing using IBM API connect. IBM Cloud has
three number one sections: Infrastructure, packages and offerings. The infrastructure is to be had
through SoftLayer facts facilities that are interconnected with the unmetered personal
community. It has the potential to provision bare-steel servers (Fernando, et al., 2013). IBM
cloud provides customization in their services. It provides their services in three basic modes,
which are lite, standard, and enterprise.
In the above figure, it provides lite package of services, which is very free.

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Above figure shows standard price of DevOps insight service.
Above figure shows enterprise price, which is expendable. User can change their requirement at
any time.
IBM Cloud provides customization in their services. It provides free and paid services to their
user based on per hour and per instance cost (www.iibmindialms.com, 2019).

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Client can update their services anytime and it is a best way to update their services. It uses pay-
per-use concept to provide services. It provides different features, which provides flexibility to
the client to choose different services (Joshi, 2014).
Systematically process required to create and deploy a “Hello World”
application.
There are five steps to deploy an application, which is as:
Step 1. Create a toolchain for your new app
Log in to IBM Cloud.
1. Navigate to the DevOps dashboard.
2. Click Create a toolchain.
3. Select the Develop a Cloud Foundry app toolchain ( Schaefer & Hawk, 2018).
4. Enter a name in toochain

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5. For the Git Repos and Issue Tracking tool integration, select the Repository type of
New, and enter a name for your new repo ( Schaefer & Hawk, 2018).

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6. Click Create. This will open up your toolchain's overview page.
Step 2. Create a simple webpage
After your toolchain is created, it is time to code! In this example, we will say "Hello" to the
world in a simple webpage. You can do the coding and testing in the Web IDE, completely in
your browser ( Schaefer & Hawk, 2018).
1. On your toolchain’s overview page, click the Eclipse Orion Web IDE. The Web IDE
will open. A few files like .cfignore and .gifignore will be created for you automatically.
2. In the Web IDE, select File > New > File.
3. The file is highlighted so that you can name it. Enter index.html.
4. In the editor area on the right, paste the following:
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<html>
<body>

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3
4
5
Hello, IBM Cloud World!
</body>
</html>
5.
You should now see this:
6. View image at full size
Step 3. Create a manifest
A manifest is a file that tells IBM Cloud how to deploy the application.
1. In the Web IDE, select File > New > File.
2. The file is highlighted so that you can name it. Enter manifest.yml.
3. In the editor area on the right, paste the following:
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2
3
4
5
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---
applications:
- buildpack: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/staticfile-buildpack.git
host: simple-website-${random}
name: simple-website-${random}
memory: 64M

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7 stack: cflinuxfs2
4. The host is essentially the URL of your application.
Make sure to use a unique name for host and name in this image. Do not use the value displayed
in the image, create your own random string:

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Step 4. Deploy and open the app
Now that you have a webpage and a manifest created in your workspace, you are ready to
deploy!
1. In the Web IDE, click the Deploy button:

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Your application is now deployed to IBM Cloud. The process takes about a minute to
complete. You will know it has finished deploying when you see a green dot in the run
bar:
If your deploy fails, check the launch file to make sure it has unique names, too:
a. Right click in by the launch and then click Edit.
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b. Change the launch configuration to use a unique Name for the application and for
the host:
c. The file is saved automatically so try to deploy it again.

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2. When your app is deployed, open it in a web browser by clicking the Open the
application URL button:
3. The running website opens in a new window:
Step 5. Commit your changes to the repo
So far, you have done all your work in the Web IDE workspace. Now you want to commit the
changes to the Git Repos and the Issue Tracking repo.
1. Click on the Git icon:
2. On the commit page, enter a commit comment and click Commit:

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3. Click Sync to push your changes to your repo:
Once you synchronize the Gilt repo, the delivery pipeline automatically kicks off a new pipeline
so your updated app will be deployed ( Schaefer & Hawk, 2018)
Opinion about cloud service providers
IBM Cloud is having much better facility in few fields. It provides instant environment that
allows developers to develop application and deploy them. It provides collaboration between
clients and developer, which is help for application development (Mather, et al., 2009). Bluemix
provides integrated services, such as open source API services and third party applications.
Bluemix provides high security to apps, platform, as well as infrastructure in a layered
architecture. It has a best facility, which is hybrid cloud environments, which is beneficial for
business requirements. IBM Cloud provides scalability in their services and it provides
customized subscription (So, 2011).

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Source: ( Gupta , 2018)
Source: ( Gupta , 2018)

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Which is better?
Azure is better than IBM cloud based on the comparison. Clients are more comfortable in the
IBM Cloud but it is having few services. It provides better services to the clients (Stackify,
2017).
Area of improvement with reason:
IBM cloud should improve their disaster recovery for client’s data and their own data storage. It
makes it better in the industry.
Conclusion
In conclusion, it is concluded from the previous parts of this report that IBM provide PaaS
services are providing better services in some fields as compared to other cloud providers. This
report has provided a top-level cloud services providers, which provides Platform as a Service. It
has compared IBM cloud PaaS with Microsoft azure cloud from different features.
This report has explained about the services of application development, such as artificial
applications and Internet of Things applications. It provides quality of design and navigation of
the PaaS system. IBM cloud services are having best services. This report has described about
the level of difficulty for development and development process of the cloud environment. Cloud
services are required huge cost but it reduces time to implement developing environment and
infrastructure. This report has explained about the costing model offered by the cloud service
providers.
In the last section of this report, it provides opinion about the IBM cloud PaaS based on the
comparison and contrast of Microsoft Azure. This report has explained about the different step of
‘hello world’ application deployment. It is a process that describe a normal channel of an
application of IBM.
Finally, IBM cloud PaaS service is having many unique features, but still few things are required
updating to make a different market. IBM can increase their services with modification in their
present services and products.

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