Classify Cloud Platforms by category

Technology CommunityCategory: DevOpsClassify Cloud Platforms by category
VietMX Staff asked 3 years ago

Cloud Computing software can be classified as:

  • Software as a Service or SaaS – is peace of software that runs over network on remote server and has only user interface exposed to users, usually in web browser. For example salesforce.com.
  • Infrastructure as a Service or IaaS – is a cloud environment that exposes VM to user to use as entire OS or container where you could install anything you would install on your server. Example for this would be OpenStack, AWS, Eucalyptus.
  • Platform as a Service or PaaS – allows users to deploy their own application on the preinstalled platform, usually framework of application server and suite of developer tools. Examples for this would be Heroku.