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Cloud service is an integral part of today’s business. With rapidly increasing amounts of data, Internet of Things (IoT) and applications, their presence in our lives today demand high storage and computing power. Cloud computing makes it easier for businesses by providing them high computing power as an alternative to investing in costly infrastructure. Using cloud computing, people and enterprises can operate any application on a plug and play basis without really investing on hardware. Organizations not only get save a lot of money, maintenance also becomes easier since the platform provider takes care of its speed and technical abilities.

Hence, it becomes very important for any business to carefully choose the appropriate cloud service provider that can provide the desired speed and computing power required for the business.

An application developer wanted to choose the best cloud computing platform for one of the application he had developed. He was undecided which cloud service provider he should choose. Many possible decisions he had to make were discussed, such as choosing a cloud computing platform and the type of hardware that would be compatible with it. After much discussion without any results, he decided to use the HDM because it would help solve the problem in a better way. While going through the process it was observed that many application developers face the same problem in choosing a cloud service provider. Instead of using the HDM for just one developer, he decided to use it to help other developers to choose between Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and IBM Bluemix.

To make the HDM and research more vigorous, the panel of experts would be expanded to 13 application developers from different domains, where each would give their valued assessments.