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Platform as a Service (PaaS)

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Assess

Using a PaaS platform for specific projects (instead of using more low-level cloud-native services from AWS or Azure) can have benefits in efficiency, time-to-market and costs. We want to investigate the use case of such platforms in our context and if we agree on it define one or more preferred PaaS platforms as well as define guidelines on when to use them.

We are currently trialing the Vercel PaaS platform in this context.

Assess

Using a PaaS platform for specific projects (instead of using more low-level cloud-native services from AWS or Azure) can have benefits in efficiency, time-to-market and costs. We want to investigate the use case of such platforms in our context and if we agree on it define one or more preferred PaaS platforms as well as define guidelines on when to use them.