The main purpose of PCF is to provide the underlying infrastructure and environments that organizations need to facilitate continuous delivery of software updates, manage the application life cycle and streamline the development, deployment, and scaling of web-based applications.

How is PCF different from AWS?

I am little confused how PCF and AWS are differ. I know that PCF gives solution using which host (client) can make their own cloud on-premises. AWS do not provide anything like that. And has lot of other services for elasticity, agility and scalability.

Why do we need Cloud Foundry?

Cloud Foundry is an open application Platform as a Service (PaaS) developed under an open source license. ... Using Cloud Foundry (or a PaaS in general) developers are able to deploy and operate applications by themselves without knowing how to setup a webserver, a database, a load balancer, etc.