Deployment Archetypes for Cloud Applications

TL;DR

This survey categorizes six cloud deployment archetypes, analyzing their tradeoffs in availability, latency, and cost to guide application owners in selecting suitable deployment strategies.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive classification of cloud deployment archetypes and their tradeoffs, aiding in informed decision-making for cloud application deployment.

Findings

Identifies six main cloud deployment archetypes.

Analyzes tradeoffs between availability, latency, and cost.

Guides application owners in choosing deployment models.

Abstract

This is a survey paper that explores six Cloud-based deployment archetypes for Cloud applications and the tradeoffs between them to achieve high availability, low end-user latency, and acceptable costs. These are (1) Zonal, (2) Regional, (3) Multi-Regional, (4) Global, (5) Hybrid, and (6) Multi-Cloud deployment archetypes. The goal is to classify cloud applications into a set of deployment archetypes and deployment models that tradeoff their needs around availability, latency, and geographical constraints with a focus on serving applications. This enables application owners to better examine the tradeoffs of each deployment model and what is needed for achieving the availability and latency goals for their application.