Cloud application development

Cloud applications are software components that are at least partially deployed in a cloud environment and are generally accessed primarily over the Internet. When developing and deploying cloud applications, you're not forced to expose your applications to everyone on the internet. Depending on your security and infrastructure needs, you can choose to have more or less control over the used infrastructure/hardware by deciding for private, public, hybrid or even multi-cloud solutions. Furthermore, proven authentication and authorization solutions allow you to control access to applications as you wish and require.

For most organizations and applications, the public cloud is the solution of choice, no matter whether the application is to be used internally, externally, or both. Known cloud providers, such as Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Hetzner offer flexible storage capabilities, computing power, networking capabilities and many additional services at low rates. You can scale as you require. Even if your company policies or regulations prohibit the usage of services of these companies, there are often alternative cloud providers which match your requirements.