&gt; I think PaaS demand is going to die down in the near future. The simple reason is that before, it used to be quite annoying to get a server set up, replicate it and scale it, but now with all the awesome automation tools coming out, I doubt that is going to be a problem anymore.<p>No matter what the tools are, I think people realized that the simplicity PaaS tried to offer doesn&#x27;t exist (regarding availability, scaling etc). Even Heroku isn&#x27;t able to accomplish it, and they&#x27;re what I would&#x27;ve considered the leader in the space.