🟢Cloud Service Types

Learning objectives

After completing this module, you’ll be able to:

• Describe infrastructure as a service (IaaS).

• Describe platform as a service (PaaS).

• Describe software as a service (SaaS).

• Identify appropriate use cases for each cloud service (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).

Platform as a service (PaaS)

Platform as a service (PaaS) is a middle ground between renting space in a datacenter (infrastructure as a service) and paying for a complete and deployed solution (software as a service).

PaaS is well suited to provide a complete development environment without the headache of maintaining all the development infrastructure.