Radius Defines Cloud App Model

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Radius is a platform for modeling and deploying cloud-based applications. Microsoft launched Radius as an open-source software project in Oct. 2023, and early releases are available. The Radius application model abstracts the specifics of application requirements, making it easier to deploy them using different services and cloud vendors. For example, rather than specifying that an application requires Azure SQL Database, the developer specifies that it requires a relational database, which could be Azure SQL Database or Amazon Web Services Relational Database Service (AWS RDS) at deployment time.

Radius could alleviate developer burden to know the specifics of a deployment environment, leaving that to administrators and others who deploy applications, such as quality assurance teams.

Radius uses so-called recipes to describe an application’s deployment requirements (such as its compute and database dependencies). Recipes are used to provision resources to a specific cloud (Azure and AWS are supported and Google Cloud Platform [GCP] support is planned).

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