Comparing Cloud Models

We performed an in-depth analysis of Virtual Machines, Containers and Serverless using two different CPU-bound and IO-bound applications. We can conclude the following observations from our analysis - (i) Serverless is the most convenient for deploying and maintaining an application closely followed by Containers. The deploy- ment is much slower for Virtual Machines. (ii) For dif- ferent types of workloads, Containers give a better per- formance and scalability compared to Virtual Machines and Serverless. (iii) From a monetary standpoint, Server- less and Containers are cheaper compared to Virtual Ma- chines for smaller workloads, but Containers are the best option for larger workloads. Containers and Virtual ma- chine are more suitable for building services which need to be always online so as to avoid the overhead of load- ing the state in Serverless. Our study and the results have helped us understand the various dimensions of deploy- ing applications in the cloud and we will be able to take an informed decision in the future.