A comparative study of cloud computing environments and the development of a framework for the automatic deployment of scaleable cloud based applications

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dc.contributor.advisorVan Rooyen, G-J.en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorMlawanda, Joyceen_ZA
dc.contributor.otherStellenbosch University. Faculty of Engineering. Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.en_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2012-03-12T08:19:19Zen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2012-03-30T10:31:54Z
dc.date.available2012-03-12T08:19:19Zen_ZA
dc.date.available2012-03-30T10:31:54Z
dc.date.issued2012-03en_ZA
dc.descriptionThesis (MScEng)--Stellenbosch University, 2012en_ZA
dc.description.abstractENGLISH ABSTRACT: Modern-day online applications are required to deal with an ever-increasing number of users without decreasing in performance. This implies that the applications should be scalable. Applications hosted on static servers are in exible in terms of scalability. Cloud computing is an alternative to the traditional paradigm of static application hosting and o ers an illusion of in nite compute and storage resources. It is a way of computing whereby computing resources are provided by a large pool of virtualised servers hosted on the Internet. By virtually removing scalability, infrastructure and installation constraints, cloud computing provides a very attractive platform for hosting online applications. This thesis compares the cloud computing infrastructures Google App Engine and AmazonWeb Services for hosting web applications and assesses their scalability performance compared to traditionally hosted servers. After the comparison of the three application hosting solutions, a proof-of-concept software framework for the provisioning and deployment of automatically scaling applications is built on Amazon Web Services which is shown to be best suited for the development of such a framework.en_ZA
dc.format.extent92 p. : ill.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/19994
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherStellenbosch : Stellenbosch Universityen_ZA
dc.rights.holderStellenbosch University
dc.subjectCloud computingen_ZA
dc.subjectSoftware scalabilityen_ZA
dc.subjectSoftware engineeringen_ZA
dc.subjectWeb servicesen_ZA
dc.subjectDissertations -- Electronic engineeringen_ZA
dc.subjectTheses -- Electronic engineeringen_ZA
dc.titleA comparative study of cloud computing environments and the development of a framework for the automatic deployment of scaleable cloud based applicationsen_ZA
dc.typeThesis
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