Thesis (MScEng)--Stellenbosch University, 2012 / ENGLISH 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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:sun/oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/19994 |
| Date | 03 1900 |
| Creators | Mlawanda, Joyce |
| Contributors | Van Rooyen, G-J., Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Engineering. Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. |
| Publisher | Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | en_ZA |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 92 p. : ill. |
| Rights | Stellenbosch University |
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