Critical analysis of the different cloud options and architectures is a crucial to host the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) in the cloud environment. ECM is a business-oriented software which is used to capture, store, an deliver an type of content of information( eg: office documents, e-mails, web pages...etc). Electronic dissertation and thesis (EDT) application has been chosen as a case-study to go through during the analysis of cloud computing deployment scenarios and the other different cloud development toolkits. EDT is a form of ECM application which implements the key features which are capturing, indexing, preservation and retrieving.