Category: 3. Cloud Service Models
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Software as a Service | SaaS
SaaS is also known as “On-Demand Software“. It is a software distribution model in which services are hosted by a cloud service provider. These services are available to end-users over the internet so, the end-users do not need to install any software on their devices to access these services. There are the following services provided…
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Platform as a Service | PaaS
Platform as a Service (PaaS) provides a runtime environment. It allows programmers to easily create, test, run, and deploy web applications. You can purchase these applications from a cloud service provider on a pay-as-per use basis and access them using the Internet connection. In PaaS, back end scalability is managed by the cloud service provider,…
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Infrastructure as a Service | IaaS
Iaas is also known as Hardware as a Service (HaaS). It is one of the layers of the cloud computing platform. It allows customers to outsource their IT infrastructures such as servers, networking, processing, storage, virtual machines, and other resources. Customers access these resources on the Internet using a pay-as-per use model. In traditional hosting services,…
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Cloud Service Models
There are the following three types of cloud service models – Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Platform as a Service (PaaS) Software as a Service (SaaS) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) IaaS is also known as Hardware as a Service (HaaS). It is a computing infrastructure managed over the internet. The main advantage of using IaaS…