Design Issues in Cloud-Hosted Applications

Abstract

Cloud Computing is the hottest technology in the market these days, used to make storage of huge amounts of data and information easier for organizations. Maintaining servers to store all the information is quite expensive for individual and organizations. Cloud computing allows to store and maintain data on remote servers that are managed by Cloud Service Providers (CSP) .The concept of building or consuming services and applications that are hosted offpremises is becoming more attractive both to independent software vendors (ISVs) and to enterprises as a way to reduce costs, maximize efficiency, and extend capabilities.
This paper describes the nature and use of cloud-hosted services and applications. It describes the benefits and the typical design issues, and the constraints and technology considerations often encountered when building and consuming these kinds of applications.