PaaS optimization

Using PaaS instead of IaaS services is a form of optimization by itself, as the level of management and administrative overhead that services require is much lower. However, some IaaS concepts still apply in PaaS services as well, such as rightsizing.

In this section, we will also cover newer PaaS flavors, such as Serverless which can be a great way to optimize costs while improving solution design to adapt to newer architectural paradigms, such as stateless services.

This chapter is an introductory overview of some ideas that we will develop further in the next two chapters, which are dedicated to databases and storage optimization. Both of them include a lot of initiatives for PaaS services as well.

But for now, let’s get into some ideas to get the most out of this management model.

PaaS rightsizing and workload consolidation

PaaS services, just as with IaaS services, need to be rightsized to better adapt to the workloads that are running on...