CloudBees generates a buzz around PaaS with help of AWS

Grazed from CSO.  Author: Sam Shead.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is helping CloudBees to generate a buzz around its platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering, which is being used by an increasing number of start-ups and enterprises.  Belgium-headquartered CloudBees claims that its AWS-based PaaS enables Java developers to build and test mobile and web applications more quickly than they would if they did it in house as it means they don’t have to worry about the underlying infrastructure they’re working on.

The company, which now has 500 paying businesses on its books, announced yesterday that the number of new customers signing up to its cloud service doubled in the first half of 2013 compared to the same period last year, suggesting that enterprises and start-ups are increasingly looking to PaaS to build apps. Indeed, enterprises including eBay, HP and Cisco have all used the CloudBees platform, as have start-ups such as story-sharing app Movellas and weight-loss app Lose It…

CloudBees CEO Sacha Labourey told Techworld that choosing AWS was an easy decision.  "Currently, AWS is considered to be the "de facto" public cloud provider in the world and consequently this is what most of our customers want to be running on," he said. "We have several hundred servers running on AWS at all times, some shared among multiple customers (our default practice), others dedicated."…

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