## abstract
Cloud computing enables companies to quickly build scalable distributed systems without large initial capital expenses. Cloud service providers offer computing resources on-demand with a pay-as-you-go pricing strategy.
Some of the cloud services are considered "serverless", meaning the underlying infrastructure is hidden from the user and managed by the cloud platform. Those services are typically unique to their cloud platform and require platform-specific knowledge and configuration. However, limiting an application deployment to only one cloud platform has various disadvantages, such as vendor lock-in.
We propose a solution to this problem by providing a way to describe high-level cloud architectures in a generic, platform-independent way. Furthermore, a software tool that translates this generic architecture into platform-specific architectures is presented.
## conclusion
The core contribution of our work is the transpiler that can be used to translate high-level architecture definitions written in a human-readable text format into platform-specific Terraform configurations. The evaluation showed a real use case by leveraging the transpiler to deploy a multi-cloud web application.
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