Hands-on Comparison of Cloud Computing Services for Developing Applications

Sammanfattning: When developing applications, developers face a challenge when they have to select the technologies that best fit the requirements gathered for the application that is going to be developed. New programming languages, frameworks, stacks, etc., have arisen in recent years making the choice even harder. Cloud computing is a new technology that has gained popularity in the last two decades providing computing resources to developers and companies. As with the other technologies, there are many cloud service providers to choose from. In this thesis, the two biggest cloud service providers Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure are compared. Furthermore, after comparing the providers a prototype of a customer relationship management system was deployed to the selected provider. From the data gathered it could be seen that further research needs to be done to decide which provider might fit better for application development.