Deployment Archetypes for Cloud Applications

This is a survey paper that explores six Cloud-based deployment archetypesfor Cloud applications and the tradeoffs between them to achieve highavailability, low end-user latency, and acceptable costs. These are (1) Zonal,(2) Regional, (3) Multi-Regional, (4) Global, (5) Hybrid, and (6) Multi-Clouddeployment archetypes. The goal is to classify cloud applications into a set ofdeployment archetypes and deployment models that tradeoff their needs aroundavailability, latency, and geographical constraints with a focus on servingapplications. This enables application owners to better examine the tradeoffsof each deployment model and what is needed for achieving the availability andlatency goals for their application.